Introducción a la cuarta dimensión y su relación con la obra pictórica de Kazimir Malevich

Abstract

Following the publication of C.H. Hinton’s The Fourth Dimension in 1904, studies of this type began to take root both in scientific, mathematical and theosophical circles, giving rise to the interesting compendium of ideas contained in the subsequent publication of the same name by the Russian mathematician and thinker P.D. Ouspensky. The influence of the Hinton-Ouspensky System would have a significant impact on many artists but especially on the work of Kazimir Malevich from 1913. His exchanges with Matiuchin were highly productive in allowing him to apply the fourth dimension in his paintings. From the designs of Victory Over the Sun in 1913 and the first alogist proposals through to the works presented at the “Last Futurist Exhibition: 0:10”, Malevich creates a formal and spatial body of work that sought to represent a zero space, a creative void where the parameters of perception are
inverted as a means of moving us closer to a sphere that is more spiritual in nature than material.