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Address: 18 Impasse de Maine, Paris 14e
Participates with Brancusi and Duchamp-Villon at exhibition at the
Mánes Fine Arts Association in Prague, where he shows five
sculptures.
Solo exhibition in Halle, Germany, organized by Der Sturm.
Presents sculptures Carrousel Pierrot, Boxing, Gondolier and
Médrano at the Salon des Indépendants.
“As for my own work, the geometric character of three-dimensional
sculptures (e.g., Boxers, 1913, Gondolier, 1914) is due to the
extreme simplification of form and not to Cubist dogma. I did
not take from Cubism, but added to it.” –Alexander
Archipenko
Caricatures of works presented at Salon des Indépendants
appear in “Le Bonnet Rouge.”
The Italian painter Alberto Magnelli purchases three sculptures,
now collection Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Apollinaire reviews the Salon and praises Archipenko’s work
in L’Intransigeant (March 2, 1914):
“Le Salon des Indépendants.”
April 13 - May 25: Futurists invite him to participate at the Esposizione
Libera Futurista Internazionale in Rome.
May 16 - June 7: Salon des Indépendants, Brussels
Creates first
sculpto-paintings. Develops sculptural elements of color, the
void, concave and convex, and geometric forms further.
“Archipenko challenged the traditional understanding of
sculpture. It was generally monochromatic at the time. His pieces
were painted in bright colors. Instead of accepted materials such
as marble, bronze or plaster, he used mundane materials such as
wood, glass, metal, and wire. His creative process did not involve
carving or modeling in the accepted tradition but nailing, pasting
and tying together, with no attempt to hide nails, junctures or
seams. His process parallels the visual experience of cubist painting.”
-Juan Gris
August 1: Germany declares war against France and Russia. Many
artists leave Paris and move to the South of France. Archipenko
spends the war years (1914 - 1918) in Cimiez, near Nice, at Château
Valrose. The group of artists living in Nice includes Ferat, Tsuguharu
Foujita, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Morgan Russel, Chaim
Soutine, and Leopold Survage.

Develops La Vie Humaine, a cubist play.
Berlin, publication of Der Sturm Bilderbuch II: Alexander Archipenko,
with 25 illustrations

Creates Vase Woman I.
Correspondence with Theo van Doesburg, De Stijl Group
Blaise Cendrars dedicates his poem “La
tête” to Archipenko.

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