Biography

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SERGEJ JAKOVLEV - painter, member of IFA

I stopped my studies at the technical university in 1980, when I have decided to devote myself to art. My teacher Vitaly Stasevich, on the speciality of Fine Arts at the pedagogical university (where I studied in 1981-1986), helped me to understand that this devotion could be a meaning of my life. The life of my teacher and friend Victor Reikhet, professor of St. Petersburg Academy of Arts (where I studied in 1987-1993), was a complete realization of such meaning. Since 1995 I am a member of Professional Creative Artist's Union of IFA (UNESCO). Now I am a painter in Sweden, president of the non-profit cultural organization International Society of Artists.

Sergej Jakovlev

Philosophy and Concepts :
	Symbolism is direction of Art, which relates a human sense to cosmic harmony. Since 1989 my art is called Post-symbolism. Herein I am trying to represent my romantic vision of the modern real world. Symbolical ideas are emotionally and mentally closed to all of us. That could be for example the ideas of happiness or sorrow, of light or darkness. I express the Symbolical ideas figuratively, with the figurative and abstract elements together, or abstractedly. Art is unable to be a server or material. It is also not peculiar to man to be a means. Man is always the purpose. The personal artist's hand and mind are always recognized in each his/her work, and it is not called a style. It is no correctly to say: the Rembrandt-stile, the Picasso-style, such as it is no right to say about any man: "He /She has lived and died in the style of…"

Main exhibitions

2004, September - Oktober. Gallery Gora, Canada, Montreal /solo/ ( photo 1, photo 2, photo 3 )

2003, December. Florence Biennale 2003, Italy (photo)

2003, June - August. Summer Exhibition, Granhyddan Gallery, Beddinge, Sweden /solo/ (photo)

2003, June. Exhibition dedicated to The National Day of Russia,

The General Russian Consulate in Gothenburg, Sweden; /solo/ (photo)

2003, February. Exhibition dedicated to the 300^th anniversary of St. Petersburg, The General Russian Consulate in Gothenburg, Sweden;

2001 Exhibition-presentation of "The Artists' Declaration" at the time of European Conference 2001, Royal Hall Hotel Eggers, Gothenburg, Sweden; /solo/

2001 "Adding Beauty to the World" Gallery Galax - The Art Factory, Gothenburg, Sweden; /solo/

1997 "The Biblical Symbols" Forum Art Gallery, St. Petersburg; /solo/

1994 "Postsymbolism" Forum Art Gallery, St. Petersburg; /solo/

1993 "Postsymbolism" Exhibition Hall Hotel Ritm, St. Petersburg; /solo/

1992 Na-Solianke Art Gallery, Moscow; /solo/

1992 "Russian Symbolism" Umerov Russian Art Gallery, Minneapolis, USA; /solo/

1991 "Gifts of TV-Marathon The Revival to the collection of St. Petersburg Museum of Modern Art";

1990 "Modern Art of St. Petersburg" Palitra Art Gallery, St.Petersburg;

1990 "100 Years of Russian Symbolism" International Friendship House, St. Petersburg;

1989 "Postsymbolism" The Majakovsky Library, St. Petersburg;

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address: Sergej Jakovlev, Atmosfarg. 15, 41521 Gothenburg, Sweden

tel: +46 736916247

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