The Art of High Resolution: Solo Show of Works by the Honored Artist of Russia Konstantin Khudyakov at the Russian Academy of Arts

The Russian Academy of Arts presents a solo exhibition of works by Konstantin Khudyakov, the Honored Artist of Russia, President of the Creative Artists’ Union of Russia, Academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. One of the leaders of Russian contemporary art the master is apt to experiments and ready to take risks. He is in constant searches of means of expression and creative methods for an adequate depiction of our time.

In 1971 Konstantin Khudyakov graduated from the Moscow Institute of Architecture and brilliantly defended his diploma work on the topic “The Concept of a City of the Future”. He worked as a chief artist in V. Lenin Central Museum in Moscow where he created a project of the architectural reconstruction of the main exposition, was a designer of many exhibitions of the Museum in the Soviet Union and other countries. Konstantin Khudyakov designed the display of the Soviet pavilion at the Festival of L’Unita newspaper (Italy, 1974).

At the same time he was a member of the famous group “20 Moscow Artists” that arranged its art shows in the City Committee of Graphic Artists in 28 Malaya Gruzinskaya street. Since 1978 till 1987 he was an active exhibitor in the above art shows and since 1986 his solo exhibitions were held in Russia and other countries. Since the late 1990s the artist gave up the traditional painting and started working in computer graphics and digital art.

In 1988 Konstantin Khudyakov set up M’ARS Gallery and organized its numerous exhibitions of modern art in Russia, Greece, Italy, France, the United States, Japan. At present he is a Chairman of the Board of Directors of M’ARS Center of Modern Art. He participated in major exhibition projects of the Tretyakov Gallery, A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, a number of European museums, as well as in the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art. His works are in collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, Yaroslavl Art Museum, M’ARS Museum, in private collections in Austria, Great Britain, Germany, Netherlands, Russia, U.S.A, France, Japan, counties of the Latin America and others.

The exhibition at the Russian Academy of Arts includes works resulting from the artist’s tireless experiments in digital art. These are landscapes of Moscow and Borovsk created on the basis of photographs in the computer version, portraits, fragments of his series “Apocalypse”, “New Russian Print”, “The Life of Insects”; monumental compositions “The Battle for Moscow” and “The Last Kiss” showing the master’s interest in historical and religious themes and his ability to unite diverse characters of the world history in a grandiose digital “fresco”.




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