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| Andro Semeiko’s various knights in flying saucers, fetishistic paintings of banal objects, and his solar system of commoditised human body parts, each forming a ‘planet’, charts a grand satire; the clanking, forlorn knights, in their tragicomic search to find something authentic in this synthetic universe, never perceive that their mistake is to look for authenticity elsewhere, when it can already be found in their own purposeful, yet hopelessly misdirected quest.
JJ Charlesworth art critic and writer, reviews editor for Art Review
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| Andro Semeiko paints single everyday objects in a deadpan illustrative manner, their meaning and relation becomes a matter of open surreal speculation, often involving a more or less oblique absurdist humour, this he carries further in paintings of medieval knights, for instance, flying spaceships. … These gleefully frivolous artworks refuse seriousness, reflecting and engendering seriously playful relations in the world.
Alasdair Duncan artist and writer
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Andro Semeiko is a young artist presenting a millennial project - a prototype for interplanetary flight. Semeiko has documented the designs for the vehicle, its spectacular launch, and the publicity following the launch. The design of the spaceship recalls the thousands of corks fired from champagne bottles at the turn of the millennium. Like the mythical Icarus, it soars into space only to come back down to earth all too quickly. When we learn the artist is originally Russian/Georgian, we might recall the trajectory of the Soviet space programme and imagine how the work might symbolize post-Soviet life.
Alistair Robinson programme director at Northern Gallery for Contemporary Arts, Sunderland |
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