Kolya Sadovnik

Kolya Sadovnik was born in the village of Peno in the Tver region in 1984. After receiving a musical education, he began painting and enrolled in Sergei Bratkov's course at the Rodchenko School. As soon as he got a musical education, he began painting and enrolled in Sergei Bratkov's course at the Rodchenko School. The artist takes part in exhibitions of the St. Petersburg group "Parasite", which has always been characterised by creative freedom and disregard for any conventions. If one were to explain his art in a few words, to try to capture the pictorial impression, it would be above all "determination" and "movement". Sadovnik finds his optimal art form at the intersection of the abstract and the figurative.

The artist who swears by painting these days, as more and more young authors do, is competing with nothing more or less than the entire history of art. It's increasingly difficult to achieve intuitiveness — the expressiveness discovered by the "New York school" of abstract expressionism turned into a technique. Sadovnik describes himself as a "one session devotee" where the desired state is achieved immediately and without sketching. For him, painting is a process that is in many ways akin to music, because it is there that the concept of inspiration, heavily discredited by postmodernism, has not yet completely lost its position. The artist is interested in the German "New Wild", and especially the early works of Georg Baselitz, who captures the explosion of familiar forms before turning them radically upside down.