AXTMANBRILLA
is brought by
BRILLA CONSULTING GMBH & CO.KG, GERMANY
in collaboration with
MARKETING & CONSULTING DI GIULIA KASCINA, ITALY
Perhaps, this is my most minimalistic sculpture.
This work has a special sacred meaning. On the one hand, it refers to the ancient Chinese symbol of "Yin & Yang", but it has one fundamental difference. Reading the sign of duality, we see an integral, indissoluble canvas of being. Borders are not clear and changes depend on the angle of view and on lighting. All this suggests that all contradictions, polarities have one nature: it is a single organism, one matter, and their boundaries are conditional and mobile. Under certain lightning conditions, we see a pure white circle, but when illuminated from the side, the surface comes to life, revealing a dynamic landscape of form and anti-form interaction.
Sergey Sobolev
Sergey Sobolev (SoboS) is an artist, sculptor, meta-designer, architect, art theorist, curator.
Was born in Moscow in 1975.
Graduated from the Moscow Academic Art Lyceum and Surikov Moscow Academic Art Institute.
Head of the Center for Contemporary Sculpture and Design METAOBEKT.
Art director of studio Ars form
Also, he is the head and creative director of the Neplosko design studio, the MOSSart studio and the Neoclassic project.
Works in the field of contemporary sculpture, art design and sculptural architecture.
Participant and laureate of numerous competitions in the field of sculpture, design, and architecture.
Participant of more than 50 thematic and personal exhibition projects.
Member of the Moscow Artists' Union, the Moscow Sculptors' Association, and the Moscow Designers' Union.
«Sergey Sobolev understands form as the border of different spaces (art and nature as well), combining different ways of structuring space in one thing. Material, surface, volume, representation and our perception are built into one row, enter into an equal dialogue. A thing appears as a metaphor for different meanings, in a laconic and pure form, freed from unnecessary details, from the narrative and mythology introduced into it. Revealing in the audience's perception, his works show different aspects of sculpture as such, in fact sculpturality.
Sobolev methodically explores these aspects. He dissects our perception of scale by presenting a scalable model of the sculpture - and a life-size fragment of it.
He shows the conventionality of the perception of form in the relationship between sculpture and light - and saturates these relationships with complex drama. We are convinced of the original tactility of the sculpture and the autonomy of our representation of the form. Invisible, hidden from the eyes, the sculpture returns to us the space of the antique reception with its tactile vision through the tactile representation of the thing. He creates sculpture as a form of adjacent spaces - sculpture from streams of light just like from natural materials, the neighborhood of spaces, understood as a surface, is endowed with the autonomy of texture and color.»
- Alexander Evangeli (curator, art critic, contemporary art theorist)
