constructive-decorative composition 1924

Editor: Kakabadze's "Constructive-Decorative Composition" from 1924. The combination of collage and mixed media gives it such a compelling, almost otherworldly quality. It is intriguing but quite unusual and thought-provoking, what do you make of it? Curator: Oh, Kakabadze. Always bending reality! The silver background – crumpled, almost lunar – it's not just a backdrop, it's the future as envisioned in the roaring twenties, don't you think? This idea of the modern, everything shiny and new, juxtaposed against these repurposed optical lenses... it speaks volumes about perspective, doesn't it? Editor: Perspective in what way? The use of the lenses seems deliberate. Curator: Exactly! Are they distorting reality, enhancing it, or perhaps suggesting a fragmented view? The Constructivists were all about breaking down forms, rebuilding the world in geometric harmony. And, well, Kakabadze does use geometric abstraction; But he doesn't just stick to that. It's almost playful. As if to say: "Here’s the future... but let's peek at it through a slightly cracked lens.” See the whimsy? Editor: I think I get what you're saying! The playful cracked lens adds an unexpected level of vulnerability. It makes the piece more engaging! Curator: It humanizes it! Kakabadze pulls you in to think it over; What's more human than our messy, subjective way of seeing things? It's art inviting us to ponder. Editor: This has completely shifted my perspective! I was stuck on its unusual elements, but now, I feel it. Curator: Good! It is truly delightful when we grasp that, beneath abstraction, art often whispers the most human of stories.