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signed in Cyrillic and dated '1972' l.m. collage on paper Bakhchanyan grew up in Kharkiv in Ukraine and moved to Moscow in the mid-1960s where he produced caricatures for ' Literaturnaya gazeta'. In 1974 he emigrated to New York City. 'Through collages, artist’s books, and other mixed media objects – which the artist minimally altered from their everyday appearance – he revealed the fine line that can separate normality from madness, banality from absurdity, platitude from blasphemy. Through experimentation and the development of inventive artistic strategies, Bakhchanyan broadened the range of expressive possibilities for other nonconformist artists. Many of his puns became an intrinsic part of Soviet dissident culture.' (Julia Tulovskaya in ' Vagrich Bakhchanyan: Accidental Absurdity', the 2016 exhibition at the Zimmerli Art Museum).