Dmitry Prigov, one of the most important actors of Moscow underground scene of 1970-1990s, was a multimedia artist working with images, texts, sculptures, installations and performance. Among the key characteristics of his work are a critical clash of the official and habitual soviet rhetorics, a metaphisical shift in picturing reality, and a serial character of works.
The exhibition which was to show main spheres of Dmitry Prigovs' works centered around dialectical pairs as Words/Sounds, Abstract/Holy, Human/Beast. Some of the most famous series of Prigovs' works were shown: Bestiary (portraits of soviet and russian polititians as fantastic beasts), Phantom Installations (graphic sheets with strange objects and characters inhabiting the white cube), Stichograms (machine-printed sheets of deconstructed poetry often starting from a readymade text), etc.
A special project for this exhibition, devoted to Prigovs' 80th anniversary, was an open-call for young artists working around topics and mediums most present in Prigovs' works. It received a name «V.Malevich» - a cencored version of 'Vagina of Malevich' - one of the works by Dmitry Prigov.
The exhibition later travelled to Saratov Art Museum and was shown under the name 'Metamorphoses of Dmitry Prigov'.