With discerning collectors and celebrities falling under Savchenko’s spell in a blink of an eye, his oeuvre has been exhibited by Peace & Colour Gallery since 2004 with the support of the Embassy of Ukraine. Once a guitarist in a heavy metal band and a representative of the Ukrainian rock subculture, today Savchenko creates art that touches our heart strings. Savchenko’s mesmeric explosive symbiosis of Expressionism, imaginative abstraction, conceptualism and primitivism with a pinch of the grotesque defies straightforward classification. According to the artist himself, ’there is a very fine line between real art and synthetic substitutes. A true artist works while feeling on edge and always rejects rules and restrictions.’ Savchenko usually refuses to categorise the paintings, but if forced to define his signature style he would describe it as ‘metaphysical, organic, emotion-driven, with a touch of self-irony’. Every minor mark Savchenko makes is charged with existential ecstasy of being, corresponding to the credo of his favourite Ukrainian philosopher and reformer Gregory Skovoroda who averred that ‘we search the ages, our surroundings and mental states for happiness. But it is everywhere and always with us, we are submerged in it as fish in water. There is no point in searching for it, if you can’t perceive it everywhere.’ Serhiy Savchenko’s solo exhibitions were held at Sparkasse Gallery in Bad Leonfelden (Austria), at Gallery RDCV in Prague (Czech Republic), at Laurier Gallery in Toronto, (Canada), at Pavlovsky Arts and Crafts Gallery in Utrecht (Netherlands), at Gallery ‘Appia’ in Grenoble (France), at Gallery ‘Galia’ in Bordeaux (France), at Gallery–68 in Copenhagen (Denmark) and at Gallery ‘Quedar’ in Strasbourg (France). His works are part of the permanent collections of Ukrainian Museum of Fine Arts in Kyiv, Lviv Ethnographic Museum and French galleries – Gallery ‘Quedar’ and Gallery ‘Galia’.