Moscow City Government
Moscow City Department of Culture
Russian Academy of Arts
Moscow Museum of Modern Art
XL Gallery

present

Viktor Pivovarov THEM

Dates: February 8 — March 20, 2011
Opening: February 7, 7pm
Venue: State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts (10
Gogolevsky Boulevard)

THEM is the third key exhibition of Viktor Pivovarov in Moscow. The first
one, Steps of a Mechanic, took place in 2004 at the Tretyakov Gallery and
the Russian Museum; the second one, Lemon Eaters, was hosted by the Moscow
Museum of Modern Art (Ermolaevsky Lane building) in 2006. The new
exhibition, THEM, is presented again at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art,
in the Gogolevsky Boulevard building. As were the previous ones, this
project is prepared in partnership with XL Gallery.

Viktor Pivovarov (b. 1937), just like Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov, Ilya
Kabakov, Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid, represents the older
generation of the so-called ‘founding fathers’ of Moscow conceptualist
school and, just like Eric Bulatov and Oleg Vassiliev, Pivovarov stands
well beyond its limits. Being a truly radical romantic, Viktor Pivovarov
has a special place among Moscow romantic conceptualists, as Boris Groys
called them.

Viktor Pivovarov’s new exhibition is entitled ‘THEM’. THEY are themes,
images, heroes, and ideas born in the artist’s mind; they are embodied in
the creative process and continue their independent lives in the space of
culture.

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