Vladimir Dukhovlinov

Vladimir Dikhovlinov was born in 1950 in Daugavpils, Latvia. After studying at art restoration at the Valentin Serov Leningrad Art College, in 1976, he graduated from the Design Department of the Vera Mukhina Leningrad School of Design and Applied Arts. The artist lived and worked in St. Petersburg and died in 2022.

Dukhovlinov seems to have quite literally devised his own style of abstract painting leveraging the texture of materials being used, be it canvas, plastic, or wood. Concise, yet full of semantic allusions, his unconventional collages paradoxically marry the meticulous exactness of every detail with a kind of instinctiveness and absence of a final and decisive meaning and interpretation.