Solomukha is a French artist of Ukrainian origin, member of the Ukrainian Academy of Arts. He initially worked as a restorer of icons, but eventually graduated in the field of monumentalist painting. He also studied classical philosophy and history, and has an intimate relation to classical music. Since 1980 he has been working as a narrative figurative painter, his works feature elements of strong social criticism. He is considered the “inventor” of a new genre of contemporary photography: photo painting. The roots of Solomoukha’s visual semantics originate in such books and disciplines as the Bible or the Kama Sutra, as well as psychological studies, anatomy, the study of antique orgies, the thorough knowledge of UFO presence theories, the Koran and the Napoleonic Code. In the piece featured in our collection, entitled Fiction on the Ambivalent Concourse of Circum-stances, he experiments with surrealism and abstraction in order to discover the visual interrelation of myth and language, as part of his ingoing research in the world of signs and symbols