"Virtual realism." Konstantin Vasilyevich Khudyakov

At the invitation of the Mordovian Republican Museum of Fine Arts, vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts, chairman of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, president of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia, academician Konstantin Vasilyevich Khudyakov will present the author’s project “Virtual Realism” in the capital of Mordovia Saransk.

The exhibition was organized by the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts with the support of the SDMI Erzi and TLC of Russia.

Vernissage, a creative meeting with K.V. Khudyakov: March 10 at 18.00 in the main building of the Moscow State Institute of Fine Arts (Kommunisticheskaya St., 61).

Dates of exposure: from March 10 to April 8, 2018.

“Virtual Realism” is a project whose purpose is to show innovative technologies in contemporary art. Stereo light panels and high-resolution digital paintings introduce and immerse the viewer into the world of new virtuality.

In the domestic art community of authors working with digital projections, sound art, using multi-touch monitors and preserving the plastic value of the works, there are not so many. In this situation, Konstantin Khudyakov seems to be the leader of the Russian high-tech art - inexhaustible in the search for the latest technical solutions, sparing no efforts to master the most advanced programs and equipment to date. With each project, he reveals previously unexplored opportunities for creating artistic images of the era of network intelligence, while remaining the principal follower of art, professing an academic school equally as a necessary foundation, plastic virtues, innovation and relevance.

The exhibition in Saransk presents the works of Konstantin Khudyakov created in the period from 2005 to 2017. These are works from different cycles: “The Anticipation / Deisis”, “Eye of the Angel”, the large cycle “Hotel Russia”, conceived by the author as an artistic double of the world in which we live. Projects that arose at the crossroads of two millennia continue to this day: the artist prefers not to stop, specifying and generalizing what he, as a person and artist, reflects in the world around him. The works combined his architectural experience, painting classes and digital technologies, as well as his keen interest in socially acute and historiosophical topics.

For Khudyakov, the possibility of designing from particular to general, from textures and meanings of individual objects and objects is fundamentally important -

to a specific human fate and a global understanding of the events of the time and history of the country. It is no accident that his main projects are implemented in the parameters of architectural thinking, which implies the identification of systemic connections between events and phenomena, between different types of art at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries, striving for syncretic unity. In Khudyakov, an architect and an exhibitionist, photographer and painter are inextricably linked. The interspecific boundaries of art do not matter to him; the “new imagery” realized by the multivariate language of digital art comes to the fore.

As part of the exhibition project, digital paintings on canvases, prints on metal, stereo-light panels are presented. The artist considers the use of “stereo light” technology as innovative media

in visual art, which allows to give compositions (created in 3-DMax, Cinema-4-D programs, etc.) fundamentally new expressive qualities: spatial, light, dynamic and volumetric effects that are not comparable in their effects with other means. Technically, Khudyakov’s stereo mirror consists of a light panel, a unique package with an image synthesized from 220 files, a translucent mirror (MirrorView) and a vertically-lens plastic (stereo technologist Aleksey Goryaev).

In addition, the exhibition will present animated fragments from Art Multitouch and a film about the artist’s work on the large-scale project “DEISIS / Anticipation”, which was once shown at the State Tretyakov Gallery.

Konstantin Khudyakov

Born in 1945 in the village of Tsarevschina, Baltai district, Saratov region. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute in the Department of Industrial Architecture, workshop of Professor A. S. Fisenko (1971). According to the distribution of MARCHI, he worked as a chief artist for ten years.

at the Central Museum of V.I. Lenin in Moscow. By the end of the 1990s, he completely switched to digital art.

Today, Konstantin Vasilyevich Khudyakov is vice-president of the Russian Academy of Arts, academician and member of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Arts, head of the Volga branch of the Russian Academy of Arts, president of the Creative Union of Artists, professor of the Moscow State Art Academy named after S. G. Stroganov, honored artist of Russia using digital technologies in his work.

Khudyakov is an artist in Russian art, searching for the latest technical trends, mastering the most advanced programs and equipment. He created a unique "multi-touch art" - a new form of art, where the multiple sequence of digital photographic images displayed on an interactive screen in the author’s computer processing creates a complete and complex work of art with a special visual and emotional effect. Member of the Moscow and Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art, as well as numerous museum exhibitions in Russia and abroad. His works are stored in many famous museums of the world, including the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the State Center for Contemporary Art, the Center for Contemporary Art MARS, as well as in art museums in Pskov, Perm, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Ulyanovsk, Kostroma, Maykop, Tula, Saratov, Tolyatti, Ufa, Kazan, Kaluga, Tolyatti, in the museums of modern art of Vienna and Bratislava.