Sergei Sviatchenko - Collage master
Andy presented us a book named “Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It” by Sergei Sviatchenko in tutorial, and then I searched more introduction about this master of collage.
Born in Kharkiv, Sviatchenko emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1980s. Before that he headed the Center of Modern Arts in Kiev soon after graduation of the Kiev Arts Academy. Sviatchenko immigrated along with his wife to Denmark. Sviatchenko is a provocateur in the world of contemporary art. His collages and paintings have been exhibited in Denmark, Germany, Italy, France, England, Canada, and the USA. Drawing on and harnessing all of the cultural tides he has experienced in 40 years of image-making, Sviatchenko’s oeuvre spans the known and the unimaginable.It cuts through the boundaries of traditional and contemporary visuals to merge pop culture with politics, personal memory with collective histories, and architecture and science with the logic of dreams. Sviatchenko has worked with a broad range of subjects and media. He experiments, challenges, and abolishes where other artists move within established comfort zones. From his early work as a conceptual artist and collage maker, he moved on to abstract painting and has done commissions and large-scale murals for international brands and institutions.
“My works explore everyday objects with the use of photography and collage elements, which are turned into scarp contoured, sculptural expressions. The precise and clean cut composition of colour and shape suggests, in a poetic, consistent language, that the fragmentation of contemporary, nomadic, globalised life does not drain it of meaning. The works show the process of navigating through the rapid flow of visual impressions that the contemporary consumer is constantly confronted with.”
"One of the most influential innovators of modern collage." – Gestalten
Gentle shapes of constructivism, 2015
Collaboration works, unsetting
Screenshots from book “ Everything Goes Right & Left If You Want It”
Capacity for Conjuring Illusion, 2013
http://www.sviatchenko.dk/biography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Sviatchenko
