Exhibition of Dmitry Prigova in Moscow
ARTinvestment.RU   30 апреля 2008

May 12 at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens exhibition «CITIZENS! Please remember! D. Prigov (1940-2007) »

May 12, at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opens exhibition «CITIZENS! Please remember! D. Prigov (1940-2007 )».

will be represented by works on paper, installation, book, performance, opera and recital.

Russia's first large exhibition of eminent artist and poet Dmitry Prigova presents works of various periods of his creativity. In all its manifestations multilateral (and he was also a sculptor, musician, performer performances, essayist, actor ...) he was primarily rhapsody, a public figure, a man, appeal to the public with the poetic text about the life, death, everything - about the highest and most lowland. The exhibition is in the form of such treatment.

It was one of the favorite genres Prigova and one of his works, which in the 1980's, the izlete Soviet regime, he was arrested a few days. The scale of talent Prigova becoming clear only now, after his death. In the future, it will certainly rise in the number of these geniuses of the Russian avant-garde as Velimir Khlebnikov and Pavel Filonov, and for dramatic and thematic scope of its range it is close titans XIX century Russian novel. The exhibition focuses on multilateralism Prigova talent and productivity. Thousands of typewritten book-objects, telegrams, «stihogrammy», drafts of pending installations, and recordings of speeches to be hitting its audience numbers. Simultaneously exhibition should provide an opportunity to read all this and hear - to experience a thrilling adventure called «Prigov». Never in the exhibition does not attempt to present it in the text of the artist as art object, but in fact it was mainly for Prigova. The second important for the genre - the opera, synthetic music and poetry event, and this story will be presented in video and audio. The exhibition will display material from the artist's family and numerous private archives. At the same time, specially for the exhibition will be implemented some of the outstanding installation projects.

The exhibition catalog will be issued - lavishly illustrated gift edition, completed in the aesthetics of the book and graphic works DA Prigova. The book will include nearly all types and genres of Prigova: from raskadrovok video to stihogramm of project installations to drawings in the book reproduction. The catalog includes hitherto unpublished play DA Prigova. Design catalog the spirit of creativity DA Prigova: it rukodelny and at the same time, uncompromisingly conceptual object, he «dematerializuetsya» as read (paper-book of grandiose landscape in the early-utonshaetsya before dumping newsprint by the end).

The exhibition will run until June 15.

Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Ermolaevsky Lane, 17.

Source: www.museum.ru