Kovalev Sergey

Is a Soviet and Russian nonconformist artist, poet, author of the concept of Paralleloshar, one of the founders of the Pushkinskaya-10 Art center.

Artist was born in Leningrad in 1948. In the 1970s, organized and participated in the Leningrad apartment exhibitions of unofficial art. In 1969 began to develop the trend of Metaelementalism in visual art as the transformation of sound into color in the technology of contra-collage. From the beginning of the 1980s began to develop the second trend in his art: social folk-art. In 1989 created the Parallelosphere conception, the self-reproducing and self-developing kinetic object of contemporaneity.

In 1981 Kovalsky was one of the founders of the Association of Experimental Fine Arts, in 1883 — of the creative team of artists "The Fifth Quarter", and in 1991 — of the professional creative union "Free Culture". In 1997, together with Evgeny Orlov found Museum of Nonconformist Art in St. Petersburg on Pushkinskaya Street, 10.

Participated in more than 150 exhibitions in Russia, Europe and USA.