Vladimir Tchernychev: Le réalisme onirique. Afrique du Nord leurs architectures de bois et

leurs architectures de bois et de chaume

2023 at the Henri Cartier-Bresson Foundation

leading a vibrant life

a stuffed anteater

he continued his unclassifiable work

Vladimir Tchernychev: Le réalisme onirique. Afrique du Nord leurs architectures de bois etThis Russian artist was born in Leningrad in 1952. He began painting at the age of nine and enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts at the age of twelve. He graduated as a painter and decorator in 1973 and became a theater designer. Like many of his colleagues, he experienced the destruction of his works, as art was then very strictly regulated and contemporary art was censored. He works in watercolor, dry pastel and Indian ink; all these techniques are