At the end of the exhibition season in 2019, curators of DiDi Gallery present a project dedicated to the work of the famous Moscow artist of the seventies Arkady Petrov.

His work can not be called equal — the artist’s style transformed along with how people and society changed. And the exposition presented at the exhibition in DiDi Gallery is more concentrated on the period of the 1990s and the contemporary works of the author. Nostalgia for a bygone era, rethinking of a person’s personality, public order — all this is reflected in the artist’s works. Even in contemporary works, Arkady Petrov adds elements inherent in the Soviet era: whether it be oilcloths, or old colorful fabrics and buttons that the author uses in the collage technique.

However, Petrov’s art is not only “Soviet”. The author follows the time, keenly feeling public moods. After the events that occurred in the late 1980s, the artist seeks to comprehend the consciousness of a “Russian man” new to him. Without losing his playful mood, he creates political, biblical and everyday subjects, filled with satirical allegories that do not go into gloomy expression.