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27-Feb-2009
Exhibition - Pyotr Dik ‘A Dialog with Pastel’
This exhibition at the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art marks the 70th anniversary of Pyotr Dik, a remarkable Russian graphic artist who died in 2002, and the fifth anniversary of the G.O.S.T. gallery, which co-organised the exhibition. Dik, born in the Altai region in 1939, graduated from Moscow's Stroganovsky art school and lived in Vladimir. As it is often the case with artists, most of his career was low-profile. Real success didn't come to him until the 1990s, when works by Dik were displayed at solo exhibitions in the Tretyakov Gallery, St. Petersburg's Russian Museum, as well as in Great Britain, Italy and Germany. Throughout his entire creative career, Dik primarily focused on pastel, with which he painted on velour paper or sand paper. Although most of his works are quite minimalist in style, they trigger a lot of emotion and thought.
■ Until March 15
Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art, rooms 2, 3 and 4
25 Ul. Petrovka / m. Pushkinskaya, Chekhovskaya, Tverskaya