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The "Dynamic-Constructive" manifesto was published by Moholy-Nagy and Alfréd Kemény at the end of 1922. Moholy-Nagy explored in this work - just like in the subsequent lino-cuts and lithographs - the tensions generated between form and space. El Lisitsky and the Hannover-based Kestner Society, known for its support of modern strivings in art, commissioned a series from Moholy-Nagy in the spring of 1923. The six lithographs were published under the tittle "Constructions". The sheet reproduced here is the second piece of this series. The six lithographs varied geometrical elements with the idea of exploring the phenomenon of transparency. In sharp contrast to the crimson base of the first sheet, here the motifs are set against a neutral gray background. The transparency of the compact black and the translucent light elements anticipate Moholy-Nagy's major work, Light-Space Modulator.
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