Page 33 - Studio International - April 1966

View of a room at the Salon des Réalités Nouvelles Paris 1950

Del Marie
Polychrome Construction Tubular steel 1950
Del Marie was general secretary of the Salon
des Wallies Nouvelles (1946-52) and co-founder
with André Bloc of Groupe Espace (1950)

Below
Servanes Construction: coloured planes 1951
Servanes exhibited at the Réalités Nouvelles
between 1950-9 and worked with Del Marie
on problems of colour form synthesis in
architecture. Participated in the foundation
of Groupe Recherched' Art Visuel (1960), now
returned to plastic research in architecture.

Morellet Sphère-trames aluminium tubing 1962 Cairoli Spatial Structure Interpenetration of spatial
Morellet is a founder-member of G.R.A.V. rhythms, perspex and aluminium 1961

Very broadly Lissitzky apart from his notably original became a term as much associated with developments in
life's work, represents a type of constructivism that architecture and design, to finally emerge as an ideology
appears to have melted away (the collectivist, ideological in the entire field of art, design and architecture. Sup-
and internationally-orientated), while Gabo represents pressed in Russia after 1923 it retained some relevance
one part of the other side, the two-man effort that even- for architecture there until the early thirties.
tually, for the general public, became synonymous with In Europe constructivism continued, became diversified
constructivism — as an aesthetic philosophy. and can be said to have survived only as an art movement
When we come to international constructivism, the Euro- even when traces of its totalistic and ideological outlook
pean activists include amongst the artists Moholy-Nagy were discernable. At this point in any account of con-
but the work of others must be considered (notably from structivism, important divergencies arising from its
the De Stijl movement), as well as important figures in the origins clearly emerge concerning the attitude of such
world of architecture at that time. figures as Tatlin and Rodchenko who adopted a position
Constructivism originated in the plastic arts but quickly quite opposed to that of Gabo and Pevsner. The main
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