Ove Arup Foundation

Soviet art and Architecture exhibition secures Foundation support

The Royal Academy of Arts is running an exhibition entitled 'Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture 1915-35', with funding from the Ove Arup Foundation.

The exhibition, which runs from 29 October 2011 to 22 January 2012, examines Russian avant-garde architecture made during a brief but intense period of design and construction. Fired by the Constructivist art that emerged in Russia from 1915, architects transformed this radical artistic language into three dimensions, creating structures whose innovative style embodied the energy and optimism of the new Soviet Socialist state.

In conjunction with the exhibition, a reconstruction of Vladimir Tatlin’s Monument to the Third International, known as ‘Tatlin’s Tower’, specially commissioned from Jeremy Dixon of Dixon Jones Architects has been installed in the Royal Academy’s Annenberg Courtyard.