Shtager Outdoor present Art Sokoloff’s first solo exhibition

Shtager Outdoor is pleased to present Art Sokoloff’s first solo exhibition.

With architectural thinking firmly placed at the core of his artistic practice, Sokoloff applies a strict formal language when placing materials in relation to space and light with the aim of revealing hidden structures. His meticulously drafted geometric objects provide a calming counterbalance to the chaos of contemporary life.

Listing collected dust as a named component alongside MDF, glue and paint, it is unclear whether the collection is the result of a determined act, or a passive consequence of the structure being exposed to the elements – the artist’s determined decision or an observed inevitability.

In her exhibition statement curator Olga Klimovitskaya writes: “A line stops being the trace of a hand and begins to function as an edge. A mark stops being material and begins to read as light. Art Sokoloff pushes his means to the limit of what is necessary — the point at which a form either convinces, or does not.”

The artist surrenders control as he releases the works from the contained environment of a white cube into the unpredictable setting of a West London garden in late summer.

Art Sokoloff (b. 1996, Moscow) is a is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, sculpture and installation.

Sokoloff completed his MA in Fine Art: Print at the Royal College of Art in 2021 and a BA in Architecture at the Moscow Architectural Institute in 2018.

He was shortlisted for the Signature Art Prize 2021 and Visual Art Open (2020, 2021).

Some notable shows include London Grads Now. 21 at Saatchi, London; Tokens at Feelium Gallery, London; AAIP in Burg Giebichenstein, Halle; Perspectives at CICA Museum, Gimpo; Dry Floor at Hoxton253 in London.