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Konstantin Chaykin takes part in the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair for the first time
Booth number 1.16/022
At the booth of the independent watchmaker and inventor, visitors will find not only mechanical masterpieces but also the author’s original paintings.
Since 2014, the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair has secured a significant place in the international art calendar. Expanding its boundaries, the creative platform continues to invite new participants, and this year it includes Konstantin Chaykin: a watchmaker and artist.
In Chaykin’s visual art, three clear strands have emerged in recent years: watch sketches, artistic studies, and standalone paintings, whose number is growing. In his works, a parallel universe comes to life, where “ghost watches” – phantoms of fine watchmaking – are born, and time becomes the dominant theme. The watchmaker’s profession has always been linked to the mechanical art of measuring time. Yet even they find it difficult to explain what time is, for it is one of the fundamental essences of the universe, ultimately unfathomable even to the greatest thinkers. Chaykin seeks another path: he invents his own visual language that allows him to speak about the beauty and harmony of time, about how its unstoppable flow turns into creation. His credo is laconic: “Time is a creator.”
Chaykin depicts components of watches and movements that are either very close to those that exist in reality or fantastical, born of his imagination. He assembles them into constructions, building watches or their parts – but he does so not at his bench, rather on canvas. Helping him is the vast experience he has accumulated and a wide body of knowledge about the essence and logic of watchmaking. His canvases are logical and well thought out. At the same time, he has deliberately chosen a palette of four colors for his painting – ocher, gray, blue, and red. These very shades underlie not only the mechanisms of traditional pocket watches but also the painted works of the Renaissance. Thus, Chaykin unites deep knowledge of watchmaking with artistic exploration, turning the path of the craftsman and engineer into the language of the artist and philosopher.
On display will be works already well known to connoisseurs, including the paintings Autumn, Oscillia, Goddess Tempa, and Time Struct. Alongside them will appear completely new works – such as the just-completed painting Ahasuerus. In the selection of wristwatches and table clocks, fair visitors will find models including the Joker Classic, Carpe Diem, Lunokhod Prime, Lukomorye, and more.
Address and opening hours: Moscow, Timiryazev Center, Verkhnyaya Alley, 6 bldg. 1, 12:00–19:30.
Booth number 1.16/022
At the booth of the independent watchmaker and inventor, visitors will find not only mechanical masterpieces but also the author’s original paintings.
Since 2014, the Cosmoscow International Contemporary Art Fair has secured a significant place in the international art calendar. Expanding its boundaries, the creative platform continues to invite new participants, and this year it includes Konstantin Chaykin: a watchmaker and artist.
In Chaykin’s visual art, three clear strands have emerged in recent years: watch sketches, artistic studies, and standalone paintings, whose number is growing. In his works, a parallel universe comes to life, where “ghost watches” – phantoms of fine watchmaking – are born, and time becomes the dominant theme. The watchmaker’s profession has always been linked to the mechanical art of measuring time. Yet even they find it difficult to explain what time is, for it is one of the fundamental essences of the universe, ultimately unfathomable even to the greatest thinkers. Chaykin seeks another path: he invents his own visual language that allows him to speak about the beauty and harmony of time, about how its unstoppable flow turns into creation. His credo is laconic: “Time is a creator.”
Chaykin depicts components of watches and movements that are either very close to those that exist in reality or fantastical, born of his imagination. He assembles them into constructions, building watches or their parts – but he does so not at his bench, rather on canvas. Helping him is the vast experience he has accumulated and a wide body of knowledge about the essence and logic of watchmaking. His canvases are logical and well thought out. At the same time, he has deliberately chosen a palette of four colors for his painting – ocher, gray, blue, and red. These very shades underlie not only the mechanisms of traditional pocket watches but also the painted works of the Renaissance. Thus, Chaykin unites deep knowledge of watchmaking with artistic exploration, turning the path of the craftsman and engineer into the language of the artist and philosopher.
On display will be works already well known to connoisseurs, including the paintings Autumn, Oscillia, Goddess Tempa, and Time Struct. Alongside them will appear completely new works – such as the just-completed painting Ahasuerus. In the selection of wristwatches and table clocks, fair visitors will find models including the Joker Classic, Carpe Diem, Lunokhod Prime, Lukomorye, and more.
Address and opening hours: Moscow, Timiryazev Center, Verkhnyaya Alley, 6 bldg. 1, 12:00–19:30.
- 11 - 14 September 2025
- Dates
- Timiryazev Center - Russia, Moscow
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