The room devoted to the Moscow conceptual artist, poet and sculptor Dmitry Alexandrovich Prigov (1940–2007) houses an installation constructed to the artist’s designs under the supervision of the D.A. Prigov Foundation. The black-and-white room resembles a museum hall containing chairs and the customary rope barriers. Hanging on the walls are empty frames with huge labels alongside. The labels read “This is a Matisse”, “This is a Rembrandt”, “This is a Malevich”, “This is a Leonardo”. Prigov reflects on freedom and the lack of it in our perception of art, on the role played by the artist’s name and on the impossibility of “pure contemplation”.
