The pop/off/art Gallery presents to the viewer the, first for several years, solo exhibition of Rostislav Lebedev – a classic of contemporary art, who acquired fame as one of the leaders of Sots-Art.

Lebedev is an author whose works have become epoch-making, such as “Made in the USSR” and “Tarot Cards”. The majority of his works, created in the XXth century, are in the collections of the largest museums – from the State Tretyakov Gallery to the Zimmerli Museun in the USA. Rostislav Lebedev’s new project “Russian Pantheon” consists of a dozen pictures, dedicated to symbolic figures of Russian culture – from Pushkin and Tolstoy to Kabakov and Komar with Melamid. As is known, “pantheon” in translation from the Greek means “an assemblage of all the gods”, but at first sight it is clear that the aim of the project is by no means the glorification of already renowned people, but a slight ironical smile at the nature of fame.