Sergei Laushkin
Painting, installations, public art
Sergei Laushkin groups his works in "rows". That's how he calls the cycles of works based solely on artistic discovery. His creative discoveries come from the world around him and include the Orenburg steppes, the ability to see the world from his own angle, particularly when it comes to the perception of colours. Thirty-two spatial solutions, a two-colour palette, a perceptual perspective, step rhythms and internal connections are among the discoveries which marked the beginning of Sergei Laushkin's purposeful experiments in art. Discovering the patterns in individual phenomena, he transfers them to the whole world, includes them in the sphere of human sensations and feelings.
For example, the series called "The Myth of the Steps Zone" appeared when the artist saw the manifestation of step rhythms in human life: the structure of the body, architecture and cities. He began his research with sculpture, and in 2015 he manifested his discovery in art; one can trace his search in motion. The artist came from smooth shapes to the direct step rhythm and stylized images, where, nevertheless, the human figure can easily be seen.

"Internal relations" began with a series of still-life-landscape-portraits, where, at first, bottles, and then abstract images of steps play the most important role. They are connected by shadows: they intersect, overlap, collide, in other words, interact to show the emotional, hidden, internal connections. Despite the conventionality of the graphical, expressive images it is quite easy to recognize human figures, which cast shadows and in doing so, become related.
Over time, Sergei Laushkin's discoveries began to manifest themselves not only in painting, but also as art objects in the urban environment. In public art the artist finds the absence of the superfluous, external laconism with original, witty and deep content particularly important.

For Laushkin, the city is another human shell, and a man builds a city as a continuation of himself. He responds to the city and creates objects which don't entertain, but meet the city's need. At the same time, the artist remains in the domain of art, without transitioning into social or, even more so, political sphere.
Selected works
Painting
series "Myth of the Stage Zone"
series "Inner ties"
Selected exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
1995
  • "Peaceful Life", Sverdlovsk House of Cultural Workers, Yekaterinburg, Russia
1997
  • "Fresh Painting", Ural Museum of Youth, Yekaterinburg, Russia
1998
  • Church of Santa Maria Maggiore, Ferentino, Italy
  • "Neither for the village nor for the city", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
1999
  • "Another angle", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
  • "Tea with the Sun", "S.P.A.S." Gallery, St. Petersburg, Russia
  • "For the Village and for the City", "Nevograph" Exhibition Centre, St. Petersburg, Russia
2000
  • "Novelty", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2001
  • "Far away", Courtesy of Unseen Russia, Global Art Venue, Seattle, USA
2002
  • Chetwynd Stapylton Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
  • Kronos Gallery, Vashon, Washington, USA
  • Art Home Gallery, Portland, Oregon, USA
2003
  • "For Love", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2004
  • Headquarters of Microsoft, USA 2004 Simple Life Gallery, Seattle, USA
  • "Absence of People", "Kino-Fot-703" Gallery, 10 Pushkinskaya st., St.Petersburg, Russia
2005
  • Champaign bottles, Museum of Nonconformist Art, 10 Pushkinskaya st., Petersburg, Russia
  • "Iron bolero" Central House of Artists, 10 Krymsky Val st., Moscow, Russia
2006
  • Hay Hill Gallery, London, UK
2007
  • "Canvas and Oil", Central House of Artists, 10 Krymsky Val st., Moscow, Russia
2010
  • "To be continued", Central House of Artists, 10 Krymsky Val st., Moscow, Russia
  • "Point of descent", X-MAX Gallery, Ufa, Russia
2013
  • "Tea House", Central House of Artists, 10 Krymsky Val st., Moscow, Russia
Group exhibitions / 1996—2006
1996
  • "The Union of Good Artists", Ural Youth Museum, Yekaterinburg, Russia
1998
  • "OTTO ARTE" International Festival, Ferentino, Italy
1999
  • "Meetings", Exhibition of the "S.P.A.S." Gallery, De Wijk, Netherlands
  • "New Picturesqueness", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg - St. Petersburg, Russia
2001
  • Gallery A3, Moscow, Russia
  • International Art Salon, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
2002
  • "Eurasian Syndrome", Karaganda Museum of Fine Arts, Karaganda, Kazakhstan; Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia; Nizhny Tagil, Russia
  • Novosibirsk International Triennial of Graphic Arts, Novosibirsk, Russia
  • "ART OLYMP", Yekaterinburg Museum of Fine Arts, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2003
  • "Ballet. Ballet? Ballet!", Gallery DAR, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 - 2005
  • Academic traveling exhibition "Ural", Ufa, Chelyabinsk, Yekaterinburg, Surgut, Nizhnevartovsk, Khanty-Mansiysk, St. Petersburg
2005
  • ART LONDON, Artek gallery, London, UK
2006
  • International Biennial of Graphic Arts, CEH Manege, St. Petersburg, Russia

Group exhibitions / 2007—2016
2007
  • Международная триеннале графики, Новосибирск, Россия
2009
  • «Арт-Завод», Екатеринбург, Россия
2012 - 2013
  • Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam, Амстердам, Нидерланды
2014
  • Серия проектов паблик-арта в Берлине, куратор — Уве Йонас, Берлин, Германия
  • «Соседи», Галерея уличного искусства «Свитер», Екатеринбург, Россия
  • «451 F», Галерея уличного искусства «Свитер», Екатеринбург, Россия
  • «Это просто такая игра», Галерея уличного искусства «Свитер», Екатеринбург, Россия
  • «Простые истины», Галерея уличного искусства «Свитер», Екатеринбург, Россия
  • «Концерт для кисти и банки с краской», Галерея уличного искусства «Свитер», Екатеринбург, Россия
  • «На другой стороне», Галерея уличного искусства «Свитер», Екатеринбург, Россия
2015
  • «Пространство множественности», Омск, Россия
  • «На краю Европы», Музей современного искусства «Эрарта», Санкт-Петербург, Россия
  • «Парное катание», Уральский филиал ГЦСИ, Екатеринбург, Россия
2016
  • «Открытые системы», проект Музея «Гараж», Уральский филиал ГЦСИ, Екатеринбург, Россия
  • «Новая малахитовая шкатулка», Бажов-Фест-2016, Уральский филиал ГЦСИ, Екатеринбург, России
  • «Зона освоения», Музей современного искусства «Эрарта», Санкт-Петербург, Росси
Education
1973
  • Cheboksary art school.
Foundation artists
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