The Eve # 36 (The Grandmother of Suprematism)

This Eve is a matriarchal force: the rumored Grandmother of Kazimir Malevich. The sculpture, with its simplified, fundamental planes, embodies the quiet, commanding presence of the Ukrainian woman who gave the world one of its most radical artists.

The true story of the *Black Square* is less academic and more anecdotal. Our theory holds that this formidable Grandmother, exasperated by little Kazimir’s endless mischief, often placed him for discipline in the dark, windowless pantry (the *chuval*). That closet was absolute, total darkness—no light, no objects, no distractions.

The Artist proposes that this moment of stern Ukrainian discipline was, in fact, the world’s first, most complete Suprematist canvas. In that boundless blackness, the young genius found the "zero form" of all painting. This Eve, in her bold, simple geometry, is the unwitting pioneer who taught the world that the ultimate truth of art lies in the **Black Square** of the disciplinary closet.