Sergey
Yablonsky

In my early thirties, I joined the largest artistic avant-garde movement in the long history of the former Soviet Union. In St. Petersburg the group of artists founded the Society of Experimental Fine Arts and gave regular art exhibitions of a "new" art five years prior to the rise of Perestroika in the Soviet Union. Throughout the 1980's, my paintings were regularly shown at art exhibits.

My artistic practice explores the conceptual aesthetic of things through absurd, irony and misplaced situations.. It includes photo, painting, graphics, and sculpture.

Since the early 2000s I have also been working in digital art and digital photography. Starting with raster images in Adobe Photoshop, vector graphics in Adobe Illustrator, and 3D objects in Maya/ 3ds Max, today I additionally use various text-to-image AI-driven art services like GAN & DALL·E 2  OpenAI for creating art works.

My works are in Russian Museum (Saint-Petersburg, Russia), Museum of Nonconformist Art (Saint-Petersburg, Russia) and private collections in Russia, Spain, USA, Israel, France.

From March 2022 I’m based in Spain.

Web site: https://serge-yablonsky.co/

Saatchi artist profile: https://www.saatchiart.com/sergeyablonsky

Selected Exhibitions

2012 – Second Photo biennale of the Modern Photography, Russian museum, St.- Petersburg, Russia.

2009 – First Museum Photo biennale, Russian museum, Saint-Petersburg, Russia. 2007 – ArtIndex: Photographers’06, St.-Petersburg, Manej, February 22 – March 10, 2007 2006 – New names at "Pushkinskaya-10" Art Centre, St.-Petersburg, Russia.

2004 – Festival of Independent Art devoted to the 30th anniversary of the exhibition at The Palace of Culture named after Gaza and to the 15th anniversary of The "Pushkinskaya-10" Art Centre, "Manezh" Central Exhibition Hall, St.-Petersburg.

1987 – Gavan-1 TEII ("Гавань-1"), Lenexpo, Leningrad. 1986 – TEII-86, Palace of Youth, Leningrad, Russia.

1984 – TEII-84 (TEII - The Society of Experimental Fine Arts), Palace of Youth, Leningrad, Russia.

Selected References

From falling into the flight (in Russian) / Из падения в полет. Независимое искусство Санкт- Петербурга. Вторая половина ХХ века. Посвящается 30- летию выставки ленинградских художников нонконформистов в ДК им. И.И.Газа. – Серия «Авангард на Неве». – СПб., 2006. 576 с.

ARTINDEX. PHOTOGRAPHS’06 (ФОТОГРАФЫ'06): CATALOG- DIRECTORY. – СПб., 2006. 464 с.

ARTINDEX. PAINTERS’06 (ХУДОЖНИКИ'06): CATALOG-DIRECTORY. – СПб., 2006. 561 с.

Gurevich, L. Artists of Leningrad underground (in Russian) / Гуревич Л. Художники ленинградского андеграунда. – Серия «Авангард на Неве». – СПб.: Искусство-СПБ, 2007; 2-е изд. СПб. 2019.

The First Photo biennale of the Russian museum, Gosudarstvennyĭ russkiĭ muzeĭ (Saint Petersburg, Russia), Palace Editions, 2009 - Photography - 559 pages.