Formed in the 1980s in the Moscow underground on Furmanny Lane, Igor Novikov studies the phenomenon of Russian culture and its visual myths that construct the perception of the nation from within and from without.

The Russian Swings project becomes a logical continuation of his artistic research and the search for a balance between kitsch and art, East and West, modernity and tradition, perhaps between Russian and European artistic and spiritual experience.

The exhibition will present the author's latest works with his famous pictographic characters, often depicted against the background of recognizable symbols of East and West. Combining pictorial skill and conceptual techniques, the art of Igor Novikov has a powerful non-conformist fuse, organic for the stagnant 1980s and especially relevant for our controversial time.

The exhibition will run from February 5 to March 6.

We remind you that visiting the exhibition is possible only in medical masks with a QR code about vaccination.