Sergey Bakin was born in Leningrad in 1957.
Graduated from art college affiliated to the Academy of Arts, Then there was Mukhina Higher Arts and Crafts College, faculty of clothes design.
For seven years he worked by profession at Leningrad Model House.
He considers Rodion Gudzenko, an artist belonging to the older generation of Leningrad underground, to be his teacher in painting.
He works in a technique of oil painting, with watercolor, pastel, ceramics.
He’s actively participated in exhibitions in Russia and abroad since the mid 80s.
His works are in private collections in Russia, USA, France, Sweden, England, Germany. "Graphic structure of Bakin’s pictures is light and bright, nevertheless his landscapes are highly “material”, dense and textured. The artist’s works are distinguished by absolute generalization. With one single line, deprived of any twists, the artists expresses a posture of a figure, a character, a mood; now it’s a man’s ingratiating pose, then a dancer’s subtle movement. In these compositions he works with big color spots brought to pure colors, highlighting pale spots - faces. Bakin’s images are full of inner expression and at times of profound tragedy. Intense vibration of colors, lines, silhouettes’ fractures are the “pulsation” of life, covered with nostalgic veil of captivating and painful beauty of art. Bakin – an artist and a man – is absorbed with a flow of everyday life, with a difficult life of a big, diversified city full of contrasts, a capital which used to be glorious and is fading now. The artist doesn’t feel shy to be simple in his complicated and excellent painting." Alexander Sementsov |
