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"Constructivism leads to a non functional but dynamic constructive system of forces which organises space by moving in it."

Manifesto 1923

Peter Laszlo Peri, Laszlo Peter Peri, László Péri, Shaped Canvas, Constructivist Art, Hungarian Avant-Garde, Constructivism, Konstruktivismus Kuns, Berlin Dada, Artists International Association, New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit

“Peri exploded the traditional square shape of the painting”

Alfred Kemeny, 1923

Peter Laszlo Peri, Laszlo Peter Peri, László Péri, Shaped Canvas, Constructivist Art, Hungarian Avant-Garde, Constructivism, Konstruktivismus Kuns, Berlin Dada, Artists International Association, New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit

“There are no conventions in Peri’s art, and in this sense only he is an unsophisticated artist”

John Berger, 1958

Peter Laszlo Peri, Laszlo Peter Peri, László Péri, Shaped Canvas, Constructivist Art, Hungarian Avant-Garde, Constructivism, Konstruktivismus Kuns, Berlin Dada, Artists International Association, New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit

“Peri takes the simplest object and simplifies the forms to an abstract precision.

He was the first to cut these paintings into shapes of their own,

so that they would change the shape of the wall through their shape”

Katherine S. Dreier, 1927

Peter Laszlo Peri, Laszlo Peter Peri, László Péri, Shaped Canvas, Constructivist Art, Hungarian Avant-Garde, Constructivism, Konstruktivismus Kuns, Berlin Dada, Artists International Association, New Objectivity, Neue Sachlichkeit
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