Alexey "Khvost" Khvostenko (Russian, 1940-2004) mixed media painting on paper depicting an abstract composition, 1996. Signed and dated lower right. Alexey Khvostenko, a Soviet and Russian avant-garde poet, songwriter and playwright, artist. He creates something absolutely his own continuing the experiments of Cubists and Constructivists with form, its dismemberment, and all kinds of configurations. Five earlier works were created in the mid-1990s. Khvostenko the artist is free to use technique and stylistic directions, his work is difficult to classify and place in a clear framework. Almost expressionist painting is combined with strict geometry, to which collage elements are often added, for example, squares cut from gold foil. One of a kind artwork.