Drawing no.4 ‘Path of Movement of a Point’ after K. Malevich (1922)
- Artist: Goshka Macuga
- Date: 2003
- Medium: Sandblasted mirror glass
- Dimensions: object: 1218 x 1828 x 18 mm
- Museum: Tate Britain
- Collection record: Tate Britain website
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About this artwork
This is “Drawing no.4 ‘Path of Movement of a Point’ after K. Malevich (1922)”, created in 2003 by Goshka Macuga. The work is a rectangular sandblasted mirror glass panel, about twelve‑by‑eighteen centimeters long and thinly cut to sixteen millimetres deep.
Macuga arranges six small triangular cuts, each meeting the next at its tip so that a clear diagonal line runs from the upper left corner down to the lower right. At the centre of that line sits a tiny circle placed between the two smallest triangles—an eye‑catching point of focus amid the linear rhythm.
The piece belongs to a series inspired by Kasimir Malevich’s early 20th‑century suprematist drawings, and it was first shown in the solo exhibition “Kabinett der Abstrakten” at Bloomberg Space in London. Macuga described her fascination with Malevich as an attempt to forge a visual order, a system that frames his own beliefs.
In this work you can see how she layers research, appropriation and formal play: the mirror surface echoes Malevich’s geometrical certainty, while the etched lines give it a subtle dynamism. The result is a striking, minimalist object that asks us to trace a path and locate a point in an otherwise flat plane.
See it in person
Drawing no.4 ‘Path of Movement of a Point’ after K. Malevich (1922) is in the collection of Tate Britain on Millbank, London — free to enter. Point your phone at any artwork there and audioguide.london plays a free audio guide in six languages — no app download needed.
