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Sergey Bondarev -  Artist, painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Lives and works alternately in Saint Petersburg and Milan. The artist’s works can be found in private collections, gallery and museum holdings around the world. His solo and group exhibitions have taken place in Russia and Europe. Sergey Bondarev calls his style "New Impressionism". Everything that surrounds the artist, all the events that happen in his life, become the inspiration and themes of his works. He lets the surrounding reality pass through him: he deforms, transforms, and distorts it through the prism of his perception. The artist captures expressive impressions of life on canvas and plays with the viewer’s emotions rather than with the meaning or concept.
Sergey Bondarev -  Artist, painter, graphic artist, sculptor. Lives and works alternately in Saint Petersburg and Milan. The artist’s works can be found in private collections, gallery and museum holdings around the world. His solo and group exhibitions have taken place in Russia and Europe. Sergey Bondarev calls his style "New Impressionism". Everything that surrounds the artist, all the events that happen in his life, become the inspiration and themes of his works. He lets the surrounding reality pass through him: he deforms, transforms, and distorts it through the prism of his perception. The artist captures expressive impressions of life on canvas and plays with the viewer’s emotions rather than with the meaning or concept.
He uses figurative metaphor, allegory, and narrative in his works. Whether in representative or semi-abstract works, his vivid colors and expressive images bring a character, an anthropomorphic figure, a creature, a personality, or an object to the forefront. His characters are dramatic, impressive, emotional. They play character parts and the artist is fascinated by observing their expression and behavior. You can often see gloomy and dark images in his works. Skulls, skeletons, fairytale villains, furies, phantoms, distorted faces, but painted and decorated, turn into kitschy fashion masks that are beautiful and horrifying at the same time. His works demonstrate a distinct combination of two opposite poles: a clear demonstration of how beauty can be terrible and how the terrible can be beautiful.
He uses figurative metaphor, allegory, and narrative in his works. Whether in representative or semi-abstract works, his vivid colors and expressive images bring a character, an anthropomorphic figure, a creature, a personality, or an object to the forefront. His characters are dramatic, impressive, emotional. They play character parts and the artist is fascinated by observing their expression and behavior. You can often see gloomy and dark images in his works. Skulls, skeletons, fairytale villains, furies, phantoms, distorted faces, but painted and decorated, turn into kitschy fashion masks that are beautiful and horrifying at the same time. His works demonstrate a distinct combination of two opposite poles: a clear demonstration of how beauty can be terrible and how the terrible can be beautiful.
My art is an ironic tale about contemporary society, its aspirations and the images that dominate the minds of its members. It’s a tale about societal consumption and globalization that prompts viewers to notice the intimate places where things are living lives of their own on the backdrop of a chaotic world.
My art is an ironic tale about contemporary society, its aspirations and the images that dominate the minds of its members. It’s a tale about societal consumption and globalization that prompts viewers to notice the intimate places where things are living lives of their own on the backdrop of a chaotic world.