Victory Over the Sun was a cubo-futurist opera synthesizing the most progressive developments in pre-revolutionary literature, design, music and performance. Victory Over the Sun pitted Man against Reason and the present order of things, embodying the desire of the Russian futurists to re-create through their art the sensation of a coming age.

 Kazimir Malevich’s cubist-inspired costumes, his backdrops covered with conical and spiral forms, squares and trapezoids, shattered traditional conventions of theater design: Mikhail Matiushin’s “mistuned” piano score disintegrated familiar harmonies; Librettist Alexei Kruchenykh, the futurist poet and theoretician, called his style of writing zaum, of “beyond the mind” – a playful stream of rhymes and images, fractured grammar and pure sound. The production was performed only twice in St. Petersburg in 1912/1913.

 My “Suprematist Neon” series is a tribute to the utopian ideals of these artists. They continually pushed the boundaries of Art, how it could permeate all aspects of society for the betterment of mankind, and how it could change the world. And it did.