Konstantin Khudyakov
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"FLY… IN HIGH RESOLUTION" The artist Konstantin Khudyakov in the Carre-Dore Gallery of Monaco February 4 – March 12, 2010
The Gallery Carre-Dore presents Konstantin Khudyakov – one of the most significant artists of the contemporary world art working with digital media. His projects, such as “Hotel Russia”, “Deisis”, ”Panoramas”, and others, were exhibited at the best exposition sites of Russia including the Tretyakov Gallery, the Russian Museum, the Moscow Museum of Contemporary Art. A real peculiar sensation was produced by Khudyakov’s “multi-touch-art”- the artist’s unique creation of visual interactive art. The multiple sequence of the author edited digital images being displayed on an interactive screen created a complex work of art with a special visual and emotional effect. The world is just beginning to discover Konstantin Khudyakov: this coming fall of 2011 his works will be presented at the Biennale of the contemporary art in Venice. Khudyakov’s style is easily recognizable: the myriad of details and the multiple plots repetitiveness in intermittent optics, all “covered” by the rigid geometry of grids and lattices. The detachment and the omnipresence, the immersion in slow motion and the multi-dimensional vision make you think that the artist possesses the visual capabilities of a Fly that sees the world in panoramic view through thousands of optical lenses. It is not an accident that the Fly becomes a “hero” of Khudyakov’s works or stays there invisibly – showing the panorama of unusual optical properties in its Flight. Khudyakov’s Fly is somewhat different, though not less symbolic, than the Fly in the installations of Ilya Kabakov - another artist of Russian origin and of world-renown. The art of Khudyakov is spectacular and even decorative. Therefore now and then the depth and philosophical richness of his work might not be noticeable to a spectator. We hope that Our Spectator will be able to appreciate the Artist Konstantin Khudyakov – the Observer with a capital letter, as he was christened by the critique.
Brief biography - 1945 - was born in the Saratov region, on the Volga River, to a family of teachers - 1965-1971 - attended the Moscow Architectural Institute; became fascinated by works of Lisitsky and Malevich, was very interested in Bauhauz, Le Corbusier and influenced by the ideas and projects of Ivan Leonidov, Vladimir Krinsky, Yakov Chernikhov; met the architect Konstantin Melnikov - 1971 - defended his diploma thesis “The City of the Future” in Siberia” While working on his graduate project Khudyakov was greatly influenced by the British group “Arhigram”, as well as by the oeuvre of the American science-fiction architect Paolo Solerie and the Japanese architect Minoru Yamasaki – the designer of the New York City World Trade Center that was under construction right at that time. At the presentation of his graduate work Khudyakov the student obtained the permission to show not just ordinary drawings, but his video-project that he filmed using the camera of his own design. The shooting was done by moving the camera inside a large paper model of an urban scene and created a very realistic impression of the city. Such a presentation was innovative and absolutely unprecedented in a Soviet High Education Institution. - 1971-1981 – worked in the capacity of the Chief Artist of the Central Museum after Vladimir Lenin in Moscow - 1971-1990 – created a lot of paintings; participated in various exhibitions; constantly studied new technologies - he was the first one to use the aerograph; was one of the leading artists of the group “20 Moscow Artists” - an exceptional phenomenon in the Russian art life of those days. - 1988 – was one of the initiators of the first independent contemporary art gallery in the USSR - “M’ARS” - 1990 – started his work with digital photographs and computer graphics President of the Russian Union of Artists |
