pop/off/art Gallery presents the solo exhibition "After all" by Oleg Lang (1950-2013), an outstanding contemporary Russian artist. Oleg Lang expanded the possibilities of modern Russian painting by creating his own recognizable version of plastic language, close to expressionism and the "new wild". The artist's fifth personal project in pop/off/art will be timed to coincide with the memorable date of the master, who could have turned 75 this year.

For a quarter of a century, he has been intensively evolving between abstraction and figurative, reacting to a wide variety of life events, regardless of their scale. The subjects of his works mixed high and low genres of storytelling: the canvases were juxtaposed with scenes from the news agenda, newspaper notes, as well as classical literature, poems of the Silver Age.

The exhibition will combine the works of the key decade for the master, the 2000s-2010s - the time when Oleg Lang expressed the basic principles of his artistic method. Combining bright lapidary planes with linear technique, he was a proponent of a direct, direct painting style, which mistakenly seemed simplistic and primitive, while the author's approaches correlated with modernist ideas in art.

The exhibition will be based on one of the most common motifs in Oleg Lang's paintings, "The cage": such works as the large–scale "Wall" (2013), "Women in a Cage" (2012), and the polyptyches "Winter" and "Summer" (2012), combined by a lattice structure. The artist works with this pattern of the twentieth century in his own author's manner, marks out the space, builds architectural structures within which the viewer finds himself.

Oleg Lang was born in 1950 in the city of Stalinogorsk (since 1961 – Novomoskovsk), Tula region. In 1975-1981, he studied at the painting faculty of the Moscow State Art Institute named after V. I. Surikov. Since entering the institute, he has lived in Moscow. Participant of exhibitions since 1975. Since 1982 – member of the Union of Artists of the USSR, since 2012 – corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Arts. Lang's solo exhibitions were regularly held in Russian museums, including the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (2009), organized with the support of the pop/off/art gallery. Over a hundred of his works are included in Russian museum collections throughout the country – from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to Tula, as well as in high-status private and corporate collections around the world. The author's works are included in the permanent exhibitions of national museums – the State Tretyakov Gallery and the Russian Museum. He died in 2013 in Moscow.