Nikolay
Morgunov is a Russian artist whose paintings are minimalist, containing
predefined grids and spontaneous chaotic graphic sublayers. The transparent
grids are applied to the surface, like lattice, but instead of hiding the image,
they reveal it. Morgunov was named after his great-great-grandfather, Nikolay
Yefimovich Kuznetsov, an avant-garde artist, co-founder of the 'Jack of
Diamonds' society. Until the age of 17, he was interested in studying
Architecture, but changed his mind and enrolled at the Stroganov Moscow State
Academy of Fine Arts. In the second year, disappointed in his studies, he left
school to focus on his career as an artist. Over the years, Morgunov’s style
has changed from op art and surrealism to expressionism on the edge of
abstraction, where merging with pure painting invites the viewer to participate
in the game of figurative and guessable.