MOSCOW.- Ivan Chuikov has long been and remains a challenging figure in the international art scene – this is what makes him truly unique. The universally acknowledged classic of conceptual art who opened a window to Europe, ‘the prince of emptiness’, ‘the heretic of the easel’, the embodied contradiction, the dandy of postmodernism… All these titles exist simultaneously, assuming that the artist stays true to his enduring method – the combination of sharp thought and flawless plastic quality. Windows series, Ivan Chuikov’s trademark, is the ultimate metaphor of the border between periods, art and life, artist and the world. The secret concealed behind the veil of every description, the secret that the author keeps putting in our minds, is still an intriguing one. The heresy of simplicity, new to Ivan Chuikov, is balanced in the exhibition with Yin-Yang, the playful series of puzzles, while Virtual Sculptures and the elegant Labyrinth fr