nikolai shumakov celebrated his birthday at the opening of an exhibition at the museum of modern art.d singularity from the latin singularis the only special work. for almost half a century they have confirmed the non-randomness of this title from the moscow museum of modern art by elena varoshilova. on his birthday, nikolai shumakov is ready to debunk the myths that have surrounded his life, share revelations about this very life in order to create new myths, which perhaps he will debunk again, but on the next anniversary. i was born at a depth of 500 m from the surface of the earth in a mine in korkino, this is my homeland. i myself... shumakov is called the owner of the dungeon, he speaks about this dungeon with gentle irony, unlike his colleagues. parallels can be traced between his architectural creativity and his graphic paintings, they certainly exist, these are coloristic decisions, this is again a clearly expressed structure, probably irony is less readable in the subway, more readable in portraits, painting and architecture in his life are on parity principles, ideas and dra