Watermelon, 2024
Sergey Sologub  

Painting : oil · 80 x 80 x 3 cm 31.5 x 31.5 x 1.2 inch · Ready to hang

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Painting : Unique artwork

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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed, ready to hang

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Format and Composition: Executed in a round format (tondo), the work harmoniously echoes the shape of a shallow dish or a cross-section of the round fruit itself. The top-down perspective (bird's-eye view) establishes a direct visual and almost tactile connection with the subject.

Style and Genre: Hyperrealism / magical realism, contemporary still life ( / ).

Materiality and Texture: Sergei Sologub demonstrates a masterful rendering of the watermelon's flesh. Through an intricate gradation of carmine, scarlet, crimson, and ruby hues, he achieves a palpable sense of moisture, sugary porosity, and the crystalline structure of the fracture.

Chiaroscuro and Modeling: Pinpoint highlights across the seeds and ridges of the pulp emphasize the fruit's juiciness and freshness. Deep shadows within the core of the cracked slices build expressive volume and three-dimensionality, visually projecting the form outward toward the viewer.

Color Balance: The dominant, expressive mass of red is delicately counterbalanced by the thin lime-and-emerald rim of the watermelon rind and the neutral, light gray-blue ground of the dish.

Germany  • 1957

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Artist Sergei Sologub was born in 1957 in Kirovograd, in the former Soviet Union (now part of Ukraine). From 1978 to 1982, he studied at the Sverdlovsk Art College (now Yekaterinburg, Russia), and subsequently at the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow (Russia, 1982–1988). Since moving to Germany in 1991, he has worked as an independent artist.

Landscapes, still lifes, technical motifs, and surreal metamorphoses define the pictorial realms of Sergei Sologub. At first glance, they appear full of harmony, opening an ideal world before the viewer, who delights in the precise rendering of subjects and the painterly sophistication of the artistic concept.

Then comes the second look: this presented slice of the world turns out to be an ironic absurdity. The seemingly ideal world is, in truth, completely unstable. Nothing is what it seems, and nothing is certain—especially perception itself.

Sologub is a regular participant in solo and group exhibitions across galleries in Germany, France, the Netherlands, the United States, and other countries. His works are held in private collections, museums, and gallery holdings worldwide.

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