05/16/2026
Vasily Klyukin’s Crypto series at Serge Sorokko Gallery — a preview of the artist’s forthcoming large-scale retrospective, opening June 26 in Napa.
The works explore the intersection of technology, environmental urgency, and the evolving future of humanity. Writing about Klyukin’s Embryo and Crypto series, Chris Fite-Wassilak observes in his essay “Universal Cipher: Modeling the Future in Vasily Klyukin’s Embryo and Crypto Series” that Klyukin’s sculptures and installations reveal “an awareness of the dark undercurrents of human behavior” alongside “an awareness of environmental urgencies.” He describes the relief works as “often dark and foreboding, but not unhopeful” — and ultimately optimistic in suggesting that “we have a future.”
As the gallery prepares for Klyukin’s retrospective, these Crypto works offer a powerful glimpse into an artistic language shaped by code, warning, transformation, and possibility.
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