Talk:5×5=25

This page was proposed for deletion by RadioFan2 (talk · contribs) on 23 March 2009 with the comment:
No indication of why this exhibition is notable.
It was seconded by MuZemike (talk · contribs) on 2009-03-23 with the comment:
I can only find a trivial mention in a Socialist newspaper here, but nothing else. Notability not established, unless offline sources can be found.
It was contested by Jimjamjak (talk · contribs) on 2009-03-24 with the comment:
(See reason below)

This article was nominated for deletion on 00:21, 25 March 2009 (UTC). The result of the discussion was speedy keep.

Objection to deletion

I object to the deletion of this article. The 5x5=25 exhibition was a defining moment in Constructivist art and early Soviet reconceptualisation of art per se. This exhibition represented the first time that work of the five pioneers of this new art (namely, Rodchenko, Popova, Stepanova, Ekster, Vesnin) were brought together and displayed to the new Soviet public. It was at this exhibition that an "end to painting" was deliberately announced for the first time, a concept that has reemerged several times in abstract art of the 20th century. I accept that considerable more detail needs to be added, but would greatly appreciate the removal of the deletion tag to give me time to add material to it.Jimjamjak (talk) 14:22, 24 March 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I'm afraid you are elevating a minor episode to biblical proportions. The obvious objection would be: what makes this show different from, say, the Tenth Exhibition (April 1919) that hosted four of five named artists, and a host of others? I'm browsing through thick (very thick) biographies of Rodchenko and Alexander Vesnin and cannot find proper answer... NVO (talk) 12:59, 25 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]