Sergey Mel is known to be an artist working in the figurative abstraction genre. Anthropomorphic forms are expressed in his paintings, sculptures, and installations.
The artist considers the work with the sensory perception of the viewer to be paramount. Leaving aside the pressing problems of the modern world, the author develops physical and abstract forms, raising the points of physicality, sensuality, anthropomorphism and taboo. In the artist’s hands the abstraction acquires materiality and figurativeness, in which hints and images are encoded, inviting the viewer to an individual interpretation.
The use of carbon fiber in his sculptural works is not a decorative component, but serves transferring an abstract image into a form, while simultaneously filling the image with biomechanical content. Creating the series, the artist emphasizes the variability of forms in space and time, at the same time referring to the Orthodox icon painting and F.Bacon works using the triptych to add not only the third, but the fourth dimension to his planar works – a temporal variable. More than that, The viewer here becomes a part of the сomposition, complementing it with his own perception.
By giving his sculptures, installations and paintings additional meanings and homages, the author believes that the main purpose of his art is actually the viewer’s pleasure. A viewer is someone who connects works from different times and proves that art cannot be modern or not, because it exists only in the beholder’s mind.