Art project by Sergey Lotsmanov is dedicated to the theme of monitoring the urban state of the post-Soviet landscape. To reveal the ambivalence of the urban objects, Lotsmanov uses realistic art language as a method. In a certain context, the canvas itself could be an urban fragment in the general picture of the city’s landscape. A parking place, a country house in the suburbs of the capital, recreational and leisure areas are taking on a new political dimension. Smoothed lacquered surfaces and urbanistic design made by the artist undercover the overall atomization of the society, which, in turn, depersonalize political commitment of the subject.
Sergey Lotsmanov studies problems of audience perception in his works. The context of his works requires a clear distinction between inspection and observation: for Lotsmanov, inspection implies the possibility of wordless communication and evaluation, the same feeling that is created when looking at objects, or at wild animals, or at stars in the night sky. Observation is closely connected with language and it is absolutely inseparable from it, since language helps to describe the subjectivity that surrounds us. The mode of describing the work is reduced to the simplified characteristics of things and spaces, however, Lotsmanov’s more important criterion and study tool is not time, but our own consciousness.
Sergey Lotsmanov was born in 1983 in Tartu. Graduated from Tallinn Academy of Fine Arts and ICA. Nominee for the STRABARG Art Award. In 2017, Sergey Lotsmanov entered the ranking of the top 100 recognized authors according to InArt. The artist's works are in collections: MMOMA, NCCA, Art Museum of Estonia, Gazprombank collection and other private collections.
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