EU biography

Each work is based on an analog photograph, which captures a place significant for the author - a point on his biographical map. In the works performed in mixed technique at the junction of painting and collage, we meet rock and roller-an alter-ego artist and a key character in his work. He becomes our guide and helps to unravel the messages and symbols hidden in the works. The exposition included six of the twelve paintings of the series.

Sergey ES was born in Arzamas of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, where he lives and works now. At the age of 19, he began to engage in art, having tried himself in painting. Then he was diagnosed with a schizotypic disorder F Sergey entered the university at the Department of Decorative and Applied Arts, however, he could not finish his education without fitting into the framework of the traditional educational system and because of his mental disorder.

The following years became the most difficult in the artist’s life and were associated with drug addiction and trial for fraud with banks and large corporations. Sergei was forcibly hospitalized in a neuropsychiatric dispenser. The author does not exclude this difficult experience from his biography, but works out and rethinks in the framework of his work.

In the city, he arranges a studio in his hometown and begins his professional development as an artist. In this process, an important place is occupied by the search for its own creative language, reflecting the life of the author with a mental illness and gives hope to creative people with psychiatric diagnoses. The author says: “The main topic with which I work is the transformation of images, concepts, ideas, forms and meanings in an individual, whose thinking is fundamentally different from generally accepted standards and norms.

The process of my work is as follows: I draw a sketch on a computer, on a plotter I cut a stencil from a self -adhesive film and, using aerosol paint, apply an image to the canvas. The background was prepared in advance by hand by acrylic. This technique is partly dictated by my disease. I have tremor, so I can’t even apply large details with a brush. Working as a cylinder with paint, I leave the place of chance and negligence.

I like that because of this, the work becomes even more unique and it is almost impossible to repeat it exactly. ”