Sergei Rozhnov (b. 1978) is Hong Kong-based contemporary artist. He completed and specialised in Monumental Painting at the St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg named after I.E. Repin, and graduated with honours. His background allows him to develop his unique practice that emerges the classical technique with academic knowledge into his contemporary art practice. 

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Rozhnov grew up playing volleyball in a semi-professional team where he has always juxtaposing in art and sport. This child/teen-hood experience triggered his initial inspiration to intertwin art and sport in his creative process. In the search of colours and energetic images, Rozhnov fabricates the Evolution series — It is a worldwide documentary of both amateur and professional athletes. Rozhnov wants to reveal the character of the players through their physical intensity and psychological emotion during the action. He believes sport truly expresses the beauty and power of human being. He transforms this observation into artistic energy on his canvas and fully presents this irresistible mechanism.  

Rozhnov combines hyperrealism and abstraction in his latest series, The Metamorphosis, where he uses silicone as the main material in his paintings. He aims to create an uncanny feeling that allows one to be aware of current life. The emergence of ink and silicone resemble the transformation of our society that is gradually mutating into the post-human. It is a reality that we are currently living in a techno-scientific world and one cannot detach from it.  

His work has been exhibited in various venues, Ærø Kunsthal, Californian Museum of Fine Arts and Yantai Art Museum, etc. It should also be noted his high achievements in murals and art installations, in collaboration with companies such as Adidas (HK), Microsoft (JP), Covestro (HK), Delta (HK), Swiss Re (HK), etc.

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