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		SHEKHOVTSOV Sergei (POROLON)

Biographical information: Born in 1969 Salsk, Russia
In 1996 graduated from Surikov Art College, Moscow
Lives and works in Moscow
Collections where works are held
Participation in exhibitions and auctions: SOLO EXIBITIONS:
2009 Fahrenheit 392, XL Gallery, Moscow
2007 Tron. XL Gallery, Moscow
2006 Park, Nina Lumer Gallery, Milan, Italy
Foam-rubber, Anna Nova Gallery, St.Petersburg, Russia
2004 Ephemeral Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
Potpourri, Regina Gallery, Moscow
Golden Cage, Regina Gallery, Moscow
Singer, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2002 Sponge, Regina Gallery, Moscow

GROUP EXIBITIONS:
2007 Capricci, Casino Forum d,art contemporari ,Luxembourg
2007 2nd Moscow Biennale, special project “I believe”, Moscow, Russia
2005 Europalia. Russia, Brussels, Belgium
Russian Pop-Art, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
2004 – 2005 Warszawa-Moskwa 1990-2000, Warsaw, Moscow
2004 26 Bienal de Sao Paulo, Ciccillio Matarazzo Pavilion, Sao-Paulo, Brasil
2003-2004 Russia, forward! Regina Gallery, Moscow
2003 Occupation of Elite (together with Valery Koshlyakov), Regina Gallery, Moscow
2002 POP/ART, Zverev Contemporary Art Center, Moscow
Davaj, Russian Art Now, Postfuhrant, Berlin;
Davaj, Russian Art Now, MAK, Vienna
2001 Typical- untypical, Artistic Squat on Baumanskaya, Moscow
2000 Abramtsevo-2000, Abramtsevo Museum, Moscow region
Autobiographical notes
What the critics say: Sergey Shekhovtsov, after studying at the Surikov Fine Art Academy and the Institute for Problems in Contemporary Art, has changed from a painter into a radical sculptor, who has chosen to work with Styrofoam, the material of postproduction and packaging, trash, and refuse that is ready to take on any form. Shekhovtsov has reformulated sculpture and deprived it of its birthright pathos. He shows the world as a synthetic illusion, as a total readiness for mutation. His ironic objects refer to different inflections and different points of the artistic tradition - antiquity and Pop Art, totalitarian visuality and ancient sacred objects. His styrofoam Pop Art both praises modernity and denigrates it. Shekhovtsov is as much an emblematic artist for the 2000s as the Soviet Non-Conformists were for the 1960s.
Alexander Evangely
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