Sergey Shekhovtsov was born in 1969 in Salsk, Russia. He graduated from Surikov Art College (Moscow). He currently lives and works in Moscow.
Shekhovtsov works principally in foam and plastic, materials more readily associated with design. He uses them in an ingeniously sculptural way.
Shekhovtsov often treats foam like wood or stone, carving out a shape with decisive and almost brutal strokes of the chisel. Thus his work is deceiving – at first glance we don’t realize what we’re looking at. So, for instance, in one work both the symbol of the new Russian State and the iron horse are actually made of foam, a material associated with housekeeping.
WATCH, 2012. SCULPTURE. STYROFOAM, ACRYLIC
