Sergey Sobolev
ART Habens
leads to slowdown . It can be compared to a river — the wider its bed is the slower the stream is . But I don ' t worry about it , because I haven ' t a definite professional goal .
As to sculpture and especially to architecture , the technical part is much larger than the creative one here , that ' s why many projects remain unrealized . But honestly speaking I do not feel sad at this fact , because the most interesting thing is to think up . But I can ' t relegate the execution to another person in my case , especially when it comes to sculpture , where the shape is critical for conveying the meaning and character . It is very important for me to recognize the concept in all the details , and nobody but I can know it beforehand . A reasonably large project takes half a year and more . Each new project is a small life , which brings you a valuable experience . I believe that the task should always be a bit higher than apparent potentials . In this case it makes you grow and be in progress . Every time I get involved into the project so much , that I do much more than it is required of me . Of course , I do it for myself and my client gets a result as a bonus . To my mind , easy tasks are just time wasters . Simple solutions of difficult tasks are much more interesting .
The sculptural art is a precise visual genre . Its shape is its language . The shape has distinct limits , otherwise it is amorphous , shapeless in other words . That ' s why I put my sculptures into concise shape , polish them up to the state of a sign , and get them rid of unwanted details to avoid anything arbitrary . Optimization is the sculpture ' s genesis . The significance of meaning is put into the significance of form , as if into the box . Or conversely the significance of meaning gets covered with a shell of the significant form . I theorize more and more over
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