"Absolute reality"

Participation in Florence Biennale, Italy.
Sergey is finishing his new marble sculpture "Absolute reality" dated March 2011 that will be exhibited in Florence.
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05/03 - 10/03/2011 V International Art Competition "Traditions and Contemporarity", Moscow, Russia

8 marble sculptures were presented to the public, including the newly created sculpture "Pushkin" (2011) depicting the most famous Russian poet Alexander Pushkin in a metaphorical interpretation of the sculptor Sergey Khorikov.
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08/02 - 13/02/2011 Weeks of Slovak Art in Berlin, Germany

Sergey presented a marble sculpture "Arrows of the Hercules". Bow and arrows is the favorite weapon of Hercules, gift from Apollo. These arrows never miss their target, their venom is lethal even to gods and they aim at chimerical monsters - kings of the past who impede development of the mankind. Hercules freed the earth from numerous horrid creatures and became however the victim of his own arrows. Bow and arrows were passed to Philocthetes who was meant to kill Paris who caused the Trojan war and broke the divine law of hospitality that was made by Zeus to open the way for the humans to understanding of the world. Arrows of Hercules is a reminder that on the way of self awareness it is necessary to work. restlessly with both hands.

Subject description: Squeezing the arrow, Hercules is pictured in the moment when the wrath of the past reached its hand to him. The wrath he was fighting against all his life. Thanks to unusual compositional solution observer's attention slides from the hand with an arrow, to the face twisted by pain. Various techniques of marble carving in combination with metal gives the image dramatic tension.  

01/12 - 05/12/2010 Personal exhibition at Art Manege 2010, Moscow, Russia.

Marble sculptures from cycle "On the Quest for the Truth. Ancient Greece" and "On the Quest for the Truth. Back to the Roots" were presented on the international exhibition Art Manege 2010 in Moscow, Russia.
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29/10 - 31/10/2010 Personal exposition at Kunst en Living Ahoy Rotterdam, The Netherlands

CAX Art Studio exhibited 6 sculptures of Sergey Khorikov on Kunst en Living 2010 in Rotterdam accompanied by a Dutch artist Tine Weissenbach who presented her press creations.
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11/09/2010 Exhibition-reception "Back to the Roots"

An exciting event, an exhibition-reception "Back to the Roots" presenting the creations of Sergey Khorikov took place in Amersfoort in September 2010. A friendly and relaxed atmosphere art lovers and wonderful sculptures made the event an exciting adventure.
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14/07 - 20/07/2010 International exhibition-competition "Slovakian Art Week", Bratislava, Slovakia

Expositional series "Ancient Greece" was granted I prize on the International exhibition-competition "Slovakian Art Week", Bratislava that took place 14-20 June 2010 in the exhibition hall of the Slovak Center of Artists.
The supervisor
Prometheus is one of the creators of the modern human being, he is benefactor and supervisor. Having appeared under different names at different stages of the human history Prometheus generously presents new knowledge to the mankind. So, in Egypt in the role of God Tot, Prometheus creates writing and therefore connected past and present. In Greece he creates philosophy. During favorable times Prometheus appears as a person and talks through philosopher Heraclitus:"Everything floats, everything changes". At difficult times when the notion of personality has been prohibited he is called for example Dr. Faust and tackles the problem of understanding the purpose of the mankind. Truly generous to people he presents gifts and takes away the illusions.
Subject description: Sculpture of a male with a snakelike tail going into the ground and arm developed into wings. The charismatic image is extremely strong and creates the feeling of the flight. The sculpture is slightly tanned and polishes that gives it an ancient glance. Technically very complicated sculpture still embodies the feeling of lightness and slim silhouette.
Expositional series "Ancient Greece" 

19/05 - 28/05/2010 Exhibition "Inspiration of Ellada"

The event was supported by Greek cultural center and Greek consulate in Russia invited artists who prais Ancient Greece in their works of art. Sergey Khorikov presented 5 sculptures executed in white marble, conceptually bound in a mini-cycle "Ancient Greece".
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13/05 - 30/05/2010 XI International Sculpture Symposium Borkel en Schaft, The Netherlans

18 sculptors from all over the world were invited to give a masterclass and show their skills. Sergey has sucessfully accomplished executing 2 sculptures in gaudi marble applying exclusivelly traditional tools. Such an event is a great opportunity to exchange experience and show skills to the vast audience from both professional and art loving surrounding.
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19/04 - 25/04/2010 Personal exhibition at Moscow House of Artist, Russia

2 sculptures ("Silen" and "Argo") from the cycle "Ancient Greece" exhibited on the "Russian Art Week" were granted the II prize.
The sculptor was invited to participate in "Polish Art Week" (November 2010) and "Slovakian Art Week" (June 2010).
The one who has the knowledge
Silen is the ancient titan whose life covered all five centuries of the mankind. He walked the Earth, saw everything, participated in events and has a lot to tell to the careful listener. The kind welcome of Silen by the king Midas has been generously rewarded by Dionis. Silen agrees to supervise Dionis on one condition: "The question should be precise". Tales of the ancient times communicated by Silen seem like mysterious fiction to unprepared listener that causes problems only to the listener as Silen is always honest and doesn't make up anything. The major difficulty of understanding the narrator can be explained by fact that his tales come from the most ancient times of the mankind and the essence of the stories can be completely understood only by the listeners of our time which more listeners.
Subject description: Fine white marble sculpture of a mythological character, a male with goat's legs is seated on the flat stone with half turned torso, one arm on the knees and another supporting the flat stone. The sculpture is perfectly composed, combines various techniques and produces great impact on the observer.
The happiness hunters
Argo is the ship of the Argonauts, the Ancient Greece heroes who set their sails on a quest for the Golden Fleece which brings the happiness to the country owning it. The pursuit of a heroic deed inspirits the human and gives him new qualities resembling the evolution of a humankind
Subject description: A statue of a human-ship created in an archaic manner which adds monumentality to the image, the wings-sails emphasize dynamics and tenacity of purpose.

19/03 - 28/03/2010Personal exhibition at Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia

Six sculptures featuring the cyclus "Ancient Greece. On the Quest for the Truth" were exhibited on the International Art Salon 2010 that took place in Central House of Artists in Moscow, Russia. The sculptor along with his creatins were filmed by narional tv chanel "Culture". Below you will find the translated version:
"In the section "Personal art axhibitions" artworks of Sergey Khorikov attract attention. The author is interested in ancient civilizations, myths of peoples of the world, Hellas, the Greek gods. All this for the sculptor is a source of inspiration. He embodies his ideas in marble -the favorite material of the ancient masters."Marble responses to the structure of ancient Greece, its philosophy. The synonym of stone is friendly, open ", - explains the sculptor.

Mythological heroes for Sergey Khorikov are not just images of the distant past. He tries to present them in our time, to understand how Nike and Aphrodite, Prometheus or Hercules with bow and arrows. would have behaved now."The distinctive feature of these arrows is that they do not miss the target. Besides, they brought death even for the Gods. The major goal of those arrows is to kill the chimerical monster that impeds the development of mankind.Therefore, all the deeds of Hercules are subject to the destruction of these chimeras "- adds the sculptor.


Sergey Khorikov strives to achieve movement in his creations, as according to the ancient philosophers, "everything flows and changes". Improvisation is the major aspect for Sergey. He takes a stone, tries to picture the image in it, identifies the points and chops off all unnecessary. Therefore the final result is always unpredictable."

27/11 - 29/11/ 2009 Art Event 2009 Antwerp, Belgium

Four marble sculptures were presented to public at Art Event 2009 Antwerp, Belgium.
Art Event held annually in Antwerp Expo is a major art event in Northern Belgium that atracts thousands of art lovers and exhibits professional artists.
The exhibited sculptures arouse great interest among public and were conceptually bound and represent the development of the human being and rational thinking.

06/10 - 11/10/2009 Russian Art Week VI International Exhibition. Competition of Contemporary Arts

The sculpture Aphrodite-Urania

was awarded the 3rd place in the section Sculpture at "RUSSIAN ART WEEK" VI International Exhibition & Competition of Contemporary Arts. Material: Marble (one piece of marble)
Sculpture type: free-standing statue
Category: single sculpture
Technique: in-the-round
Original or copy: original
Date: 2003
Dimensions: height 0.80 m; width 0.30 m; depth 0.22m
Subject Description: A fragile image of the naked standing female emphasizes celestial spiritual aspect of Love. The sculpture is perfectly composed, technically perfect, the marble is polished which produces great impact on the observer.

CONCEPT

Having chosen marble as the main material, Sergey successfully embodies highest quality in unique works that are risky and challenging from a technical standpoint, painstrikingly executing the most miniature details.
By the means of masterfully carved stone, Sergey attempts to exposure the inner relation of God and Human, combined with overwhelming perfection of the world around. Sergey's marble sculptures reveal deep, sometimes torturous state of human soul, rational approach and wholesome illumination of personality's evolution.
Basing many of his works on numerous sages and ancient Greek myths, Sergey pays careful attention to vivid images carved in stone. Many of the sculptures are unique and have a conceptual meaning. Structurally based in a philosophical scheme they reveal the deepest universal concepts.
The art of Sergey Khorikov could be seen as mythic embryo developing in the skillfully created sphere revealing more and more peculiar details to the observer. To get the most of the sculpture it is of great necessity to observe it from all sides as the details captured by human eye initially, start transformation and develop themselves in boundaries between real and unreal.

Concepts of cylces:

- "Rejecting the Dogma" (1990's)
- "On the Quest for the Truth" (2000 - 2008)
- "Ancient Greece" (2007 - now)

Sergey Khorikov

Sergey Khorikov is the Russian sculptor who strives to place universal human experience and feelings in the centre of his artistic creation embodying amazing images in marble. Sergey was born in Moscow, the former USSR, in 1955.

After leaving Moscow high school in 1972 he started working as an apprentice and later a co-author of Moscow established sculptors of that time mastering the traditional technique of carving marble without using electrical instruments.

Since 1973 Sergey was also engaged working for the Ministry of Defense of the USSR and in the workshops of the Soviet Fund of Culture sculpting in marble and granite busts of generals and marshals as well as political leaders. In his spare time, however, he continued to pursue his passion for sculpting in the classical tradition. With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the communist system Sergey has worked on his own in his studio in Moscow.

In the early 1990s he created the cycle "Rejecting the dogma", a series of marble sculptures investigating the main Christian idea of sacrifice. In the 1990s a number of his marble sculptures including those from the cycle "Rejecting the dogma" were exhibited in the art galleries in San Francisco, the USA.