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Exhibitions

Geometry in the 20th and 21st centuries was adventurous - and apocalyptic

Whitechapel Gallery celebrates 100 years of geometrical utopianism, while at the Gagosian Richard Serra offers something more colossally industrial and bleak

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

17 January 2015

9:00 AM

Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915–2015

Whitechapel Gallery, until 6 April

Almost a decade ago, David Cameron informed Tony Blair, unkindly but accurately, ‘You were the future once.’ A visitor to the Whitechapel Gallery’s exhibition, Adventures of the Black Square, might mutter the same words in front of the first exhibits.

It is now a century since Kazimir Malevich painted the starkest abstractions in the history of art: one simple geometric shape painted on a background of another colour.

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