Energy can be in different states. It may lurk in the clenched muscles of an animal preparing to jump or in the gentle water surface of a river in front of a multi-meter waterfall, or it may be already in the process of release — to rage, illuminate with the light stream of a burning star or an erupting volcano.
Sergei Sklyarov’s painting is not just like energy, it is energy itself in a latent or active state.
His paintings never repeat themselves, they do not exploit the same plot, but even being painted in different techniques and styles, they are united by one handwriting: energetic.
Sergey himself hardly explains how his paintings are born, even when they depict not abstract energy flows, the image of which he captures at the level of neurons in the brain, but quite specific people, landscapes, genre scenes or mythological plots. It often seems to him that he writes them as in a dream, closing his eyes, in a trance, not understanding who or what is driving his hand, but at the same time feeling the vibrations, smells and sounds of what is being depicted.
The birthplace of his creations is the ancient village of Kuchuk Lambat. In fact, it is the center of an amphitheater formed by four places of power of the Crimea: lacollites — Ayu-Dag, compared to a Bear, Castel-Dag, compared to an Elephant and Mount Paragilmen, compared to a Wave continuously moving towards the Black Sea — a mighty element, part of the World Ocean.
All these sources of powerful potential and kinetic energy seem to focus on an ancient village and affect any creature, and even more so on a talented person.
He is helped to transfer energy to the canvas by a serious art education received at the Simferopol School named after N. S. Samokish and the Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts.
Sergei Sklyarov’s works are constantly present at various exhibitions, in metropolitan art galleries, and are among connoisseurs of his work in private collections around the world, one of which already has several dozen of his works.
The author of the article: Victor Fecit,
is an artist-collector. 23.03.2024
Photo — Valery Koshelev, Crimea, Yalta, Mriya Resort & SPA. 11.04.2024