Dvizhenie

Dvizheniye Group (Movement). Founded in 1962 by Lev Nusberg in Moscow. Demise in the 1970s. Activities ranged from early, static works in painting and sculpture to kinetic constructions, performance, installations and projects related to urban planning.

Lev Nusberg, Galja Bitt, Sascha Grigorjev, Francisco Infante, Tatjana Bystrova. The Movement Group, was formed in 1964 by a number of young Russian artists who shared an interest in working with geometric forms to express sensations of infinity that they believed form the essence of human experience.

In the mid- to late-1960s, these individuals turned their collective attention to kinetic installations, or “artificial spaces,” which became Dvizhenie’s main focus for the duration of its history.

In 1966 the group included the following persons: Nusberg, Infante, Kuznetsov, Buterlin, Viacheslav Koleichuk, Zanevskaya, Orlova, Glinchikov, Mura- veva, Bitt, and others.
Also: Vladimir Galkin, Georgij Lopakov, Viktor Stepanov.

Transferred the suprematist and constructivist systems to a more synthetic environment in the form of functional design (eg. urban designs celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the October Revolution in 1966) and interior design, and outdoor performance (e.g. the Galaxy Kinetic Complex in 1967).

Articles

• Vyacheslav F. Koleychuk, The Dvizheniye Group: Toward a Synthetic Kinetic Art, Leonardo, Vol. 27, No. 5, Prometheus: Art, Science and Technology in the Former Soviet Union: Special Issue (1994), pp. 433-436 [1]
• Russian 'Movement' Group (From "CMeHa", No. 1, January, 1968), Leonardo, Vol. 1, No. 3 (Jul., 1968), pp. 319, [2]
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