Serguei Zlenko (Finland):

'Best traditions of representational art, and in particular the ones of powerful Moscow Art school, are  displayed in the works of Russian-Finnish artist Sergey Zlenko. Working in different genres, the artist first of all realizes himself as a Russian artist with a strong academic school and creates most of his works in this style. At the same time he intertwines some impressionistic motives in his pieces. Being inspired by the images of ballerinas, cityscapes and seascapes, or giving tribute to portrait paintings, or drawing horses, or modeling sculpture, the artist fulfills the task of realistic representation of the world around us, emphasizing what’s peculiar to the given moment. The artist does not aspire to get in a mainstream of any new fashionable trends. Having found his style of expression he consistently and persistently tries to return us to the classical form of perception of the world.'

                                                                                                                                                                                                              Illaria Mishchenko, Art Critic