"art is one of the branches of mathematics, like any other science"

These are Rodchenko's word from 1921. Moreover through his works he seems to say that everything should be subjected to mathematics, as it is the ultimate law in the universe.
I envy him and find it very scary.
Once again I'll refer to childhood ideological trauma. I used to seek for the field that would be the one and only most important ever always. The plan was to find it and then become a specialist in its scope. That would be logical - as at the moment I know there is only one life, I shouldn't waste it for something not hyper-important. As a hard-working twelve-year-old I began to think. After a thorough analysis, I figured out that physics are the science I'm looking for. Law of physics rule the whole universe, so can anything be more powerfull than that?
Then I began to read and count and learn by heart all that I should know as the best living physicist ever. I don't remeber what came first - wheter I found out that I am not good enough to be the next Hawking already, or that it is not the most important field of life after all. What followed it was a yet another breakdown. Luckily there is no most important thing or idea whatsoever, and if there was, physics woudn't be it. I can find pleanty of examples where the laws of physics are absolutely ignored.
What would that have to do with the 20's in ZSRR?
The thing is that I have the impression that Rodchenko didn't give up. His world of number, shapes and colors was absolute, because it was subordinated by the absolute law of mathematics. The only thing he had to do is remove the element of emotional expression of personality. Well, everything becomes more harmonious when you get rid of the human factor. I look at the shades of his installations and I'm full of exaltation and anxiety.

For those who are in Barcelona at the moment, his works are in La Pedrera until 5 January 2009.