Sigov’s work is a masterfully executed elegant synthesis that to a degree epitomises Saint Petersburg’s cultural aura. 

Sigov manages to reconcile the tenets of Impressionism with the aesthetic attitudes of the classical tradition – its structure, permanence and idealised depictions of human bodies. The artist’s compositions are characteristic of Impressionist and Fauvist art in the abandonment of dark tonalities and rough rendering. However, in his work, light doesn’t dissolve contour, doesn’t mitigate mass. The compositions are also somewhat Surrealist yet Renaissance in both their perspective and use of colours.

At the beginning of his growth as an artist, Sigov’s significant artistic beacon was an Austrian painter Ernst Fuchs, who was the founder of the Vienna School of Fantastic Realism. Fuchs’s exuberant, utopian, highly codified and thought-out imagery inspired Sigov to further develop Fantastic Realism, which Sigov in part refigured. His distinctive interpretation of the movement is enriched with Classicism and Synthetism, along with the above-mentioned stylistics.

The deliberate blending of various classical schools of painting Modernist techniques creates a contemporary symbiosis of the past with the present. The result evokes a tapestry of historical references and adds to the whimsical nature of the compositions. 

Sigov’s subjects are atemporal and fluid as if they are being manifested on the canvasses in real time as mirages. The collaged elements are carefully sewn together with the use of Sigov’s signature textured brushwork reminiscent of lace and filigree. 

The subject matter, sometimes symbolically and sometimes directly, refers to archetypes, mythic characters, legends, divine intoxication, fertility and life cycles.

Sigov’s still lifes, alluding to classical antiquity, celebrate the dynamics of seasons and in parallel with that discuss the transience of our existence and its peaks and valleys. They echo frescoes, mosaics and emblemas that traditional Roman domus and villas were decorated with. Similarly to those ancient art forms, his pieces are visual statements asserting hospitality and vitality, yet their reservedness resists endorsing debauchery and over-indulgence. Instead, Sigov’s still lifes are a testimony of fulfilment and beauty found in the natural harmonious flow of life.