Sergey Sologub 'New Wave'

SERGEY SOLOGUB ‘New Wave’

Sergey Sologub was born in 1957 in Kirovograd, Russia. He trained at the Russian State Cinema Institute (VGIK), Specialising in Product Design. In 19971991 Sergey Sologub worked as a product designer at the Sverdlovsk Movie Studio. Since 1991 the artist has been based in Cologne, Germany

He has participated in more than thirty group exhibitions and twenty two oneman shows around the world. He was awarded the St. Andrew Art Prize, the Hollfeld Museum Award and from 2003 to 2006 his paintings were exhibited in the prestigious Annual Exhibition of Cologne Museums in Germany.

Landscapes, still life and surreal metamorphoses are the trademarks of Sergey Sologub's artistic vision. The first impression one is given upon viewing his work is of meticulously detailed refinement and harmony, but on closer inspection a world of paradoxical angles and unusual juxtapositions unfurls, surprising and disorienting the viewer. A still life arranged from art books, crockery and other everyday objects surprises us with its impossible angles and implausible construction, its harmony turned upside-down. Sergey Sologub is a player of games, a twister of reality. His mixture of classical composition and technique with often surreal subjects creates a world which is at once beautiful but also sets out to challenge the viewer's perceptions.