Sergey Bespamyatnykh

Sergey was born in 1970 in Bakal, Chelyabinsk Oblast. In 1995, he graduated from the Novosibirsk Architectural Institute with a degree in Civil Architecture. The artist lived and worked in Novosibirsk and passed away in June 2022.

Bespamyatnykh immediately caught public attention and soon became something of an enfant terrible on the Novosibirsk art scene. His large-scale psychedelic works displayed no recognisable stylistic parallels, reflecting instead the rather unusual inner realm of their creator – absolutely free and totally unhinged from his actual geographical whereabouts. The artist referred to his trademark painting manner as ‘psychomechanical formalism.’ At the same time, his paintings and drawings are free from any expressionistic bathos. Military vehicles, red whales, and non-existent characters are oftentimes intertwined, not without humour, into a whimsical ‘Latin-American’ jungle of imagery and patterns illustrating hitherto subconscious phenomena.