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CUBA, cigars
and The US Embargo
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Most of the subsequent paintings were done to decorate a cigar emporium in an upscale complex of Restaurants and Shops, named The Governor, in the new City Hall of Moscow. Lilly Zanardi from Miami was the designer, and solicited me in 1996 to decorate the cigar shop. What was first a drag for me (I didn't smoke cigars and I am notoriously behind the times when it comes to trends) became an interesting exercise of creativity. I have the same problem now with Golf!, amazingly, I am most comfortable with painting matches!
 

Amazing how the mind works?
THE SECRET OF
MONTE-CRISTO
 

An evocation of Fidel Castro's ideology, unperturbedly flying through adverse eternity
LEADER MAXIMO

a joke about the late comers at smoking cigars!
TRENDY

experimentation with melting acrylic glazes under the thin Normandy rain
COHIBA-LEEK

experimentation with melting acrylic glazes under the thin Normandy rain

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•BLUE

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Having spent 15 years already in Miami, I cannot be insensitive on Cuban issues
EMBARGO

The models were bought in France, then smuggled into my studio, then smoked without guilt.
HELL

A bundle of Havanes morph as a flamboyant bunch of green asparagus... a flame of Liberty for Cuba.
LIBERATION OF HAVANA

my bank's name changed from Capital Bank (a lot like cigars) to Union Planters Bank (Leeks)
UNION PLANTERS BANK

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