"My painting does not depict an event, it is an event" - Yevgeny Mikhnov-Voitenko

The exhibition "Zverev/Mikhnov-Voitenko. A Second Multiplied by Eternity" at the AZ Museum. When you come to the exhibition, be sure to watch the film about the artist on the 3rd floor of the museum, and it is better still to begin your visit with it.

Mikhnov-Voitenko is one of the key artists of the Leningrad underground, called both the heir to Western post-war nonconformist art and a forerunner of Pollock.

The works make a strong impression, while the biography and the recollections of the artist leave one wishing to know more about him. Indeed, more has been said and written about him of late, yet his figure remains something of an enigma.

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