BIOGRAPHY
Vladimir Nemukhin was a Russian artist associated with the "Lianozovo Group" along with Oscar Rabin, Valentina Kropivnitskaya, and Lidiya Masterkova. Along with these artists, Nemukhin rejected Socialist Realism, opting instead to explore abstraction. He calls the basis of his abstract compositions "Russian cubo-futurism," in which he references three-dimensional objects in fractured biomorphic or geometrical forms, using collage to create mixed-media compositions.
According to Julia Tulovsky, Assistant Curator at the Zimmerli Art Museum, “Nemukhin is best known for his abstract still lifes with playing cards, fragments of card tables, and fighting cocks ... In a majority of cases, these symbolize accident, intrigue, and indeterminacy, contrasting with the doctrine of predetermination demanded by the Soviet establishment. Nemukhin intends his structures, surfaces and symbols to reveal the spiritual, the unreal, the emotionally obscure, and the existential."
