Sergey Sologub 'Island'

SERGEY SOLOGUB

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.

Sergey Sologub's new exhibition at Hay Hill Gallery promises to be a surreal fusion of ordinary landscapes and still-life, seen through a filter of science fiction. At first glance, these compositions appear meticulous with their technical skill and careful symmetry; on closer inspection, paradoxical angles emerge to disorient and unsettle the viewer.

The artist clearly has a love of steam-shrouded locomotives and floating Venetian islandsdisguising a mischievous spirit within an atmosphere of hushed reverence, as though he were a mystic.

All may seem perfectly normal- until you realise that there is a giant paper aeroplane settled in the desert landscape; or that houses are blooming from the dusty patterns of an elaborate Persian rug.

His recurring themes are futuristic and ancient all at once.

Gondola Oil on canvas 160 x 120 cm

Dream Oil on canvas 160 x 120 cm

Venice Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm

Island Oil on canvas 170 x 270 cm

Town Oil on canvas 80 x 70 cm

Babylon Oil on canvas 80 x 80 cm

Pool Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm

Hangar Oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm

Submarine Oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm

Silence Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm

Tram Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm

Station Oil on canvas 120 x 160 cm

Visitor Oil on canvas 90 x 120 cm

Glass Train Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm

Underground Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm

Seagulls Oil on canvas 80 x 100 cm

Gondolas Oil on canvas 160 x 120 cm

Bridge Oil on canvas 70 x 90 cm

Highway Oil on canvas 150 x 200 cm

Selected Exhibitions 2014

2013 2012 2011 2010 2009

2008

J端rgen G端ttler Gallery, Germany Pictures from an Exhibition, Inter Art Gallery, New York The Best of the Gallery Collection, Inter Art Gallery New York Summer Group Show, Hay Hill Gallery, London Art Fair, Milan Hay Hill Gallery, London Medici Gallery, London Antique & Contemporary Art Fair, Dusseldorf, Germany Antique & Contemporary Art Fair, Dusseldorf, Germany Contemporary European Art, Fez Art, New York Tenner Art Centre, Contemporary Surreal Vision, Brooklyn, New York Port Jefferson Arts Festival, Long Island, NY Interart Gallery, NY Art of Imagination, East Hills Castle, Huntington, NY Interart Gallery, New York International Art Expo, New York

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