ABOUT THE ARTIST
A multidisciplinary artist, inventor and watchmaker working at the intersection of visual art, engineering and the philosophy of time. His artistic practice grows out of Haute Horlogerie yet reaches far beyond it, transforming the elements of the movement into archetypes, allegories and mythological images on canvas.
MY PATH AS AN ARTIST — IS THE NATURAL CONTINUATION OF MY PATH AS A WATCHMAKER AND INVENTOR
On canvas the artist builds a system of Horological Archetypes. Assembled from the parts of the movement, these figures become metaphors for the soul and for the inner driving force of his artistic universe, in which time is revealed as a cultural, mythological and existential category.
His works carry both conceptual and material weight. Unlike Haute Horlogerie, where an idea demands engineering realisation, painting records the thought in the immediate moment.
The worlds he creates unfold as self-contained philosophical systems, drawing all the while on more than twenty years of building highly complicated movements. Together these elements form a new direction within contemporary academicism.
[ View works ]Horological Art
Konstantin Chaykin is the author of an unprecedented genre — Horological Art. His works are created according to the principles of technical drawing and engineering design. The proportions and composition of the paintings derive from the logic of the watch movement and from more than twenty years of work on some of the most remarkable watches in horological history. Chaykin's visual language is built on a system of Horological Art symbols: in this way the master's singular experience passes into the artistic plane.
On canvas he develops a system of Horological Archetypes. Figures composed of the parts of the movement become a metaphor for the soul and the driving force of his artistic universe, where time appears not as a measure but as a cultural, mythological and existential concept. His works carry both conceptual and material weight.
Where Haute Horlogerie requires an idea to be embodied in mechanics, painting records the thought in its immediate form. The worlds he creates are not bound by function; they unfold as self-contained philosophical systems that form a new branch of academicism in contemporary art.
THE IMAGE OF TIME IN THE MULTITUDE OF ITS MANIFESTATIONS IS WHAT DEFINES MY ARTISTIC LANGUAGE — HOROLOGICAL ART
A new branch of academicism — this is how Konstantin Chaykin's practice is defined: a contemporary continuation of the academic tradition worked out on the material of the mechanics of time. In his painting, the principles of draughtsmanship, compositional discipline, proportion, allegory and the union of art with knowledge are rethought through the watch movement, engineering precision and the philosophy of time.
