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Oil on canvas, 289.5x173.5 cm 

 © Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art 

Vladimir Nikolaevich Nemukhin (1925-2016) is a participant of the Lianozov School, one of the key representatives of Soviet nonconformism. He consistently went from figurativeness, through abstraction to his own artistic philosophy, which defined his personal easily recognizable style. The turning point of Nemukhin's creative biography, by his own admission, was 1965, when he discovered playing cards as an artistic idea. The evidence of the event is different: according to one version, it happened when the artist semi-automatically drew a six and a seven of tambourines on a piece of paper, according to another - he saw the cards thrown by workers in the "painting" mud of the construction site. One way or another, the image that accidentally appeared before Nemukhin's eyes attracted him with its "curious geometry". He saw the intense dynamics of the lines arising between the abandoned cards, the complex structure of their diagonals, overlays and intersections. Nemukhin worked with the card deck as an artistic concept throughout his creative career, constantly developing his style inside it. The artist's works are in the collection of the Tretyakov Gallery and other museums.

“I love you to death” on a seat of the abandoned Versailles theater. Beirut, Lebanon. November 26, 2013