"Under the roof of the first international plein air "Malevich. UNOVIS. Modernity" another significant project was born - this is the project of Tatyana Kotovich "Malevich. Classical Avant-garde. Vitebsk". The project was a scientific understanding of the artistic processes that took place during that period, through the collection of articles by authoritative scientists, art historians, art theorists with the subsequent publication of a collection of the same name. Thanks to the selfless work of the famous theater scholar and cultural scientist, scientists were given the opportunity for a serious art history analysis of this period. The collections published scientific articles of a diverse approach to the study of what was happening in the 90s in our country and in the post-Soviet space. Art received an important component - an intellectual understanding of artistic and cultural events.

The geography of the scientists who took part in the project is quite wide. The collections included articles by scientists from the USA S. Douglas, J. E. Bould, from France – J. K. Marcade, from Poland – Nina Dunin. Art historians from the Russian Museum and the Tretyakov Gallery, such famous names as Academician D. Sarabyanov and Doctor of Art History A. Shatskikh, Doctor of Art History D. Gorbachev from Ukraine and many others published their articles. Vitebsk theorists, art historians and researchers also had the opportunity to publish their works. V. Babich, V. Karavkin, A. Lisov published their articles in the collection. Almost all my articles on art theory were published in this collection.

No one received royalties for the articles, much less for collecting the articles and publishing the collection. The author of the project had to “place” his collection with one publisher or another, look for grants for its publication and patiently and persistently knock on closed doors all the time. The collection is published in this way to this day. Only the first two were published by the city. The very first collection was part of the project “Malevich. UNOVIS. Modernity”, and money was allocated for it. When the Soros Foundation was expelled from Belarus, I, as a grant recipient, had nothing to pay for the collection already printed in the Vitebsk printing house. I had to go to see the chairman of the regional executive committee V.P. Andreichenko and convince him to allocate money for the collection. The second collection was part of the project of a scientific conference dedicated to the 120th anniversary of K. Malevich, which was held and financed by the culture department of the Vitebsk city executive committee. Over the following years, this collection never acquired the status of an official publication."

– © Alexander Maley: Vitebsk "Square": Artistic study of the nonconformist movement of artists in Vitebsk and Minsk (1987–2000), pp. 319–321.