He was born in 1975 in Madrid, where he live and works nowadays. This artist is well known for the European public, and his characters always generate in our minds feelings of sympathy and anxiety. Ones Eugenio Merino was named new Andy Warhol.

AC: How you desided to become an artist? Is it a sort of  rebelliousness what you do?

EM: I decided to become an artist to have the freedom to do anything I want . The rebelliousness is part of the freedom.

Dates: March 30 – May 9 2011

Venue: State Museum of Modern Art of the Russian Academy of Arts, 10 Gogolevsky Blvd.

Participating artists: Juan Uslé, Fernando Sánchez Castillo, Sergio Prego, José Manuel Ballester, Jorge Galindo, Laura Torrado, Antoni Muntadas, Jordi Colomer, Ángela de la Cruz, Pello Irazu, Cristina Lucas and others.

The «Fiction and Reality» show at the Moscow Museum of Modern Art is held within Russia – Spain Year 2011. The project presents works by Spanish artists form the collection at the Patio Herreriano Museum. The Museum opened in the city of Valladolid in 2002. Its collection  comprises oeuvres by Spanish masters dated from 1918 to the present, which have been aquired by the  Association «Contemporary Art Collection» since 1987. The Collection counts over 1000 works, and is considered to be the biggest collection of contemporary Spanish art. The works acquired by Spanish prívate companies are donated to the Association  and are exhibited at the Patio Herreriano Museum.