Kliment Red'ko

Kliment Red'ko or Redko (Russian: Климент Николаевич Редько, 1897-1956) was a Ukrainian-Russian painter-scientist, avant-garde artist (Constructivist, Projectionist, Suprematist), graphic artist.

Biography

Kliment Red'ko was born in Cholm, Russian Empire.

In 1910–14 he studied at the Icon Painting School of the Kiev Pechersk Lavra.

In 1918–19 he studied at Kiev Art Academy (KKHI).

In 1919–20 Red'ko studied in the studio of Aleksandra Ekster along with students Solomon Nikritin and Nina Genke-Meller. During that time he participated in decorating the streets of Kiev and Odessa for Revolution festivities, in the abstract style together with Ekster and Genke-Meller.

In 1920–22 he studied painting at the Moscow Higher Artistic-Technical Workshops (VKhUTEMAS) in the class of Wassily Kandinsky.

In 1922 he participated in an exhibition of the Museum of Painterly Culture (MSCHK) in Moscow, together with Kazimir Malevich, Nikritin and Alexander Tyshler. In the same year Red'ko wrote the "Manifesto of Electroorganism".

From 1923 to 1924 Red'ko, together with Nikritin, developed his theories of "Electroorganism" and "Luminism". Red'ko started a scientific trend in art which he named Electroorganism as a reaction to Constructivism.

In 1926 he had a solo exhibiton in Moscow.

In 1928–30 he had solo exhibitons in Paris.

In 1933 he had personal exhibition in Moscow.

In 1941 he worked on the design of posters for the news agency TASS.

Kliment Red'ko died in Moscow.