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"Objects are my actors, I am a director. My still-life is not not simply a piece of reality and the objects are not placed there in a random order. I put them in a specific dimension, a kind of "anytime" and "anywhere" . I want objects to speak. I create on my canvases the historical theatre of things".                                                                                                                                                                                 Nikolai Smirnov
                                                                                                                       

The Art of Nikolai Smirnov

by Alexander Yakimovich

Russian Art Historian, Phd in Art History, Full member of Russia's  Academy of Fine Arts, Merited Art  Critic of Russia.



Nikolai Smirnov. 
Eternal Return
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