The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents Units of Time, an exhibition featuring art from Sergey Alexandrov’s collection. The show will include works by 12 key representatives of the 1960s Soviet unofficial art scene, as well as their predecessors and followers, including Ilya Kabakov, Dmitry Krasnopevtsev, Vyacheslav Koleychuk, Anatoly Zverev, Evgeny Kropivnitsky, Vladimir Yakovlev, Boris Sveshnikov, Dmitry Plavinsky, Vladimir Nemukhin, Vasily Sitnikov, Lidia Masterkova, among others. The project continues the MMOMA exhibition programme which seeks to popularize and showcase new facets of private Russian collections.

Each exhibition hall is monographic and focuses on one artist while also providing the context of their contemporaries as well as later and earlier generations. Although the focus of the exhibition is the 1960s art, it reveals the complex dialogues between different eras and their representatives. These obvious connections, art’s continuous progression, intersections and continuity expose the phenomenon of time itself. In the project, time acts as a form, both static and mobile, directed into the past and the future, bringing new textures into art or dissipating in fantasy stylizations. The audience will see twelve independent, autonomous artists who represent and synchronize various milestones of the art of the second half of the XX — the beginning of the XXI centuries, with the exhibition as a whole addressing the issue of time, so relevant for the contemporary culture.

Besides works of fine art, the show will feature a documentary film about the artist Vladimir Yakovlev (directed by Nikolai Kotrelev, Vladimir Osherov, music by Alexey Aigi). The project will also include a photo gallery with 35 unique portraits and life scenes of nonconformist artists shot by famous photographers: Igor Palmin, Alexander Zabrin, Valentin Serov, as well as photographs from family archives. The score by Anton Silaev, specially composed for the project, will complement the exhibition narrative.