The exhibition will introduce the audience to the conceptual project of a Moscow-based artist who works primarily in the genre of digital art photography. Konstantin Khudyakov was one of the first Russian artists to explore the artistic possibilities of 3D prototyping, virtual and augmented reality, interactive systems, and stereo technologies in his art.

The exhibition will feature a work that is part of the larger conceptual project «DEISIS/Anticipation», which was initiated by Konstantin Khudyakov, Viktor Bondarenko, and Roman Bagdasarov in 2004. Today, the project consists of 100 canvases and is the artist’s magnum opus. Each portrait consists of thousands of details that have their own unique shooting point and, as a result, their own unique viewing point for the potential viewer.
The exhibited work was created using computer processing of 60,000 photographs of 350 photomodels. To obtain each conditional photographic portrait of the upcoming saints, the artist used such computer graphics techniques as digital multisampling, layering images on top of each other, and mutual conversion.

The multi-meter-long work will appear to the viewer as a laboratory view of an anthropological scientist, a meticulous, detailed, but emotionally cold reconstruction of humanity based on its sacred archetypes. The generalized image of humanity, reduced from a multitude of faces into a sum of visual experience, appears in the artist’s work as a compilation of existence revealed through the archetypes that are the core of European civilization.

The exhibition will last until November 16.

Tickets are available on the museum’s website.