Exhibition curator — Natalia Parkhomenko

... Tales have no time.
It is defined by actions...

The exhibition presents the oeuvre of Alexei Ivanovich Parkhomenko, a production designer for Mosfilm studio, the People’s artist of the USSR, the USSR State Prize winner.

The art of Alexei Ivanovich Parkhomenko is many-sided. Filmmaking is one of the sides of his creative activities, which he has devoted the largest part of his art to. The artist Alexei Parkhomenko has worked at films, known all over the country, in the «Golden Age of Cinema» studio. «Fall of Berlin», «Admiral Ushakov», «Normandy — Niemen», «Five days, five nights», «Vasily Surikov», «Days of the Turbins», «Flight», «Till Eulenspiegel», «Dangerous Corner», «Time and the Conways» are among them.

It is known that cinematography is a synthesis of all arts of plastic thinking: visual cinematographic art, where creative method of film art has developed. Not without reason the Moscow Museum of Modern Arts houses the present exhibition timed to the 100th anniversary of the artist, since visual cinematography has always been a progressive art in Russia. Such celebrated cultural workers as Sergei Eisenstein, Mikhail Chiaureli, Alexander Dovzhenko, Mikhail Romm, Vladimir Kaplunovsky, Alexei Parkhomenko, Sergei Yutkevich, Alexander Savchenko, Vladimir Basov, Alexander Alov, Vladimir Naumov, Mikhail Kalatozov have created the Golden Age of Cinema of high moral strength and universal importance.

The films created by the personalities are phenomena of the whole epoch in the life of the society. And at present, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art raises the whole stratum of history in the life of the country in person of the artist Alexei Parkhomenko.