... of constructing sculpture from separate elements, as opposed to modelling or carving, was developed by Pablo Picasso in 1912, extending the planar language of Cubism into three dimensions. This method was elaborated in Russia, initially by Vladimir Tatlin from 1914 onwards and then by his many followers, who, like him, made abstract sculptures that explored the textural and spatial ... rotated to create a three-dimensional geometric form that is completely permeated by space. The surviving work belongs to the second series, in which Rodchenko imposed a simple logic upon his method of con...

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