MEETINGS WITH ARTISTS: JUST ART
MEETING 3: SERGEI SHEKHOVTSOV
July 9, 2015, 19:30
Garage LAB
Free Admission
Just Art is a series of discussions with artists moderated by renowned art critic and historian Andrey Kovalev.
Sergei Shekhovtsov appeared on the Moscow art scene in 2000, and first became known under the nickname Porolon (Foam Rubber), underscoring the artist’s choice of medium for his strangely monumental and complex sculptural compositions. Later, the nickname was dropped, as Shekhovtsov started experimenting with other media, such as Styrofoam. With these fragile materials, he creates entire worlds, sometimes based on computer games or teenage fantasies, and at times willfully realistic.
Sergei Shekhovtsov studied at M. B. Grekov Art School in Rostov and later graduated from V. I. Surikov Art Institute (Nikolay Andronov’s studio) in 1996. In the late 1990s, he lived and worked in the squat at Baumanskaya, along with Avdey Ter-Oganyan, Vladimir Anzelm, Valery Koshlyakov, Vladimir Dubosarsky, and Yuri Shabelnikov. Shekhovtsov’s Cinema installation represented Russia at the 2004 São Paulo Art Biennale.
- Sergey Shekhovtsev
Cinema
2004 - Sergey Shekhovtsev
Lost Highway
2013 - Sergey Shekhovtsev
Occupation of Elite (together with Valery Koshlyakov)
2003 - Sergey Shekhovtsev
Dogs
2011 - Sergey Shekhovtsev
Boy and Pigeons
2004
