Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow

September 13 at 4 pm in the exhibition hall of the VOKHM named after I.N. Kramskoy within the framework of the X International Platonic Festival of Arts the opening of the exhibition “Mikhail Prekhner. Photo avant-garde of the 1930s ”.

On the opening day, admission to the exhibition is free.

Mikhail Prekhner (1911-1941) is an outstanding representative of the Russian avant-garde, one of the classics of Russian constructivist photography, a contemporary of Alexander Rodchenko and Andrei Platonov.

The magazines Prekhner collaborated with – Radio Listener, Moscow Says, and USSR in Construction – marked the golden age of Soviet graphic design.

After the success at the exhibition “Masters of Soviet Photographic Art” in 1935, after the publication in “Soviet Photo” of a separate material, which noted the combination of Rodchenkov’s sharp angles with Prechner’s lyricism and freshness of intonation, after a silver medal at an exhibition in Antwerp, it seemed that there was a long life ahead and a bright career …

Mikhail Prekhner died while filming the battles for Tallinn in the first year of World War II. His artistic legacy was forgotten for a long time.

The photographs of Mikhail Prekhner, saved thanks to the archive of his daughter, were presented in the projects of the Union of Photographers at group exhibitions in recent years: “The Age of Optimism”, “Beach”, “Gnu Antelope”, “Art and Propaganda in Soviet Photography” and others. The first personal exhibition of the author was held in the “PhotoSoyuz” gallery of the Union of Russian Photographers in the spring of 2008. Subsequent retrospective solo exhibitions were presented at MAMM in 2013 and 2018, which now houses a collection of the photographer’s work.

The exhibition “Mikhail Prekhner …” presents photographs taken in the 30s, as well as several photographs from 1940-1941, created for the album “The First Cavalry Army”, reports from the I Congress of Soviet Writers and about the new Moscow, pictures from trips to the assignment of the magazines “USSR in construction” and “In construction of MTS and state farms.”

Pre-war photographs, carefully attributed by MAMM employees, provide an opportunity to get acquainted with Soviet modernism in photography.

The Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow (MAMM) is a museum and exhibition complex, the first museum in Russia specializing in photography, video and media art. Founded in 1996. The museum has hosted exhibitions of such photographers as Georgy Petrusov, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Annie Leibovitz and many others. Repeated participant of the Platonov Arts Festival.

At both exhibitions of the festival “Alexander Drevin and Nadezhda Udaltsova. Painting, graphics “and” Mikhail Prekhner. Photo avant-garde of the 1930s ”there is a single ticket:
Full – 200 rubles
Preferential (pensioners, schoolchildren, students) – 160 rubles

The exhibition will run until October 4, 2020.

ATTENTION!

Exhibitions work according to the museum’s working hours:
Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday 10:00 – 18:00
Thursday 12:00 – 20:00
Friday 11:00 – 18:00
Monday, Tuesday – closed

The ticket office closes 20 minutes before the end of the exhibitions.

No more than 20 people are allowed in the exhibition hall at a time.
Visitors need a mask.
The work of exhibitions is carried out in the mode of self-examination.