Konstantine Khydyakov
Today the art by Konstantin Khudyakov can be seen as a triumph of digital aesthetics.
Lots of Avant-garde movements in art of XX century owe to the appearance of new media. "Digital painting" that emerged in 1950s was more a kind of automatic graphics with random combinations of numbers and simple images, and its randomness was a feature of engine's creativeness eager to collaborate with human. As a vanguard creative practice that focuses on a still up-to-date problem of artificial intelligence, digital painting remained elitist art for a long time.
By 1970s experiments with digital had been already involved in artistic practice. When artists started creating alien monsters for spectacular scenes from science fiction movies and video games, vanguard digital art turned into kitsch.
In this period Konstantin Khudyakov, who is always aware of new trends, turned to digital art. The artist probably discovered digital painting through modeling. In this case it's important to notice his past architectural practice. Computer graphics that helps you simulate reality is now displacing drawing and becoming an integral instrument for architects.
Vanguard futuristic pathos in art by Konstantin Khudyakov goes perfectly together with visual aesthetics of digital myth.
Konstantin Khudyakov is in a way a visionary artist who forecasted digital totalitarianism and subjection of reality by glossy aesthetics of gadgets and massive advertising constructions consuming city space.
His work from Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art "Farewell of Slavianka" comes from his big project "HOTEL RUSSIA" that is devoted to aesthetics of Soviet totalitarianism and utopian idea of perfection of human kind with the help of cloning and genetic engineering. Digital world in his art with its allusions of soviet myth's immaculacy and kitsch always goes together with fragments of exaggerated mutilated reality. The author himself calls his "HOTEL RUSSIA" series an all- Russian digital kunstkamera.
Conceptual "print-screens" of Konstantin Khudyakov's fantasies, where fragments of a known reality fight their way forward glossy digital effects, envisage the real-virtual relationship problem.
Born on January 2, in 1945 in the village of Tsarevshchina in the Saratov region. Since 1971 has been the chef artist of The Central Lenin Museum in Moscow. Since 1984 Honored Artist of the Kirghiz SSR. In 1988 founded M'ARS Gallery. In 2005 received the Silver Award in the category “Portrait of the Year” of LEAD AWARDS 2005, Hamburg (Germany). Is a chairman of M'ARS Center for Contemporary Art. Lives and works in Moscow.
Education
- In 1971 graduated from the department of industrial design of the Moscow Institute of Architecture. Defended diploma “The concept of the city of the future” with honors.
Projects
- 1972—1974 — designed and implemented the reconstruction project of V. I. Lenin's Central Museum's main exhibition halls
- 1974 — design of the Soviet pavilion exposition at the “Unita” newspaper festival in Bologna, Italy
- 1975—1980 — design of over 100 V. I. Lenin's Museum exhibitions in the USSR and abroad (Switzerland, Finland, GDR, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Vietnam, Cuba, Bulgaria, Yemen, France)
- 1980—1987 — design of V. I. Lenin's Museum branches in Frunze (Bishkek), Kirghizia, Kuibyshev (Samara)
- 1985—1987 — worked on the architectural design concept for the reconstruction of the V. I. Lenin Central Museum in Moscow
- 1988 — to the present Chairman of the Board of M'ARS Contemporary Art Gallery
Solo exhibitions
- 1986 — solo exhibition, Zelenograd, Moscow
- 1987 — solo exhibition, the exhibition center in Kremenchugskaya street, Moscow
- 2004 — “Deisis”, The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 2005 — “Novyi Russkiy Shrift”, M'ARS Contemporary Art Gallery, Moscow
- 2006 — “Hotel Russia”, M'ARS Contemporary Art Gallery, Moscow
- 2009 — “Deisis”, Dimitrovgrad Cultural Center; Lenin Memorial Complex in Ulyanovsk; Historical and Architectural Reserve in Usolye, Perm Region
- 2010 — “High-Resolution Art”, Museum of Modern Art at the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow
- 2011 — solo exhibition, Mimi-Ferzt Gallery, New York, USA
- 2011 — solo exhibition, Care-Dore Gallery, Monaco
- 2012 — “Konstantin Khudyakov. High-Resolution Art”, the exhibition halls of the Russian Academy of Fine Arts, Moscow
- 2013 — “The Last Supper” within the 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Moscow State Art-Industrial Academy named after Stroganov, Moscow
- 2014 — “Number and Myth”, Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Petersburg
- 2014 — “Number and Myth”, Regional Exhibition Hall, Krasnodar
Group exhibitions
- 1978—1987 — participated in the exhibitions of the 20 Moscow Artists Group in the basement of the City graphic artists committee in Malaya Gruzinskaya, 28, Moscow
- 1987 — exhibition of Object Group of Artists, Malaya Gruzinskaya street, Moscow
- 1988 — group exhibition (M'ARS Gallery), Jeraklion, Greece
- 1989 — group exhibition (M'ARS Gallery), different towns of France
- 1989 — group exhibition of M'ARS artists in Bramante Exhibition Hall, Piaza del Poppolo, Rome, Italy
- 1991 — participation in the “New Russian Art” exhibition (A. Gleiser's collection), the Central House of Artists, Moscow
- 1992 — participation in the exhibition “Dream Reveals the Nature of Things”, the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 1992 — participation in the exhibition “Russian XX Century Art”, Nassau Country Museum, New York, USA
- 1992—1993 — two exhibitions “Three Russian Artists” in Murcia and Madrid, Spain
- 1992 — Tokyo-Art-Expo, Japan
- 1994 — “Russian Collection”, Osaka and Fukuoka, Japan
- 1996 — participation in the exhibition “Galleries in the Gallery”, State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow
- 1996—1997 — “The World of Perceptible Things in Pictures. The End of XX Century”, The State Pushkin Museum, Moscow
- 1997 — “Russian Collection”, Palais des Nations, Geneva, Switzerland
- 2003 — Art Digital 2003, M'ARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2005 — Art Digital 2004, M'ARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2005 — Art Digital 2005, M'ARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2005 — “Artist and Weapons”, NCCA, Moscow
- 2006 — Art Digital 2006, M'ARS Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2006 — “Window. Russian Art”, Sotheby's, New York, USA
- 2006 — “Time for a Change”, The State Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
- 2006 — “The Master and Margarita”, Florence, Italy
- 2007 — “'I Believe”, Vinzavod Art Centre, Moscow
- 2007 — “New Acquisitions”, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2007 — “New Angelary”, Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow
- 2007 — group exhibition, Mimi Ferzt Gallery, New York, USA
- 2008 — “Moscow — New York”, National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow
- 2008 — “Moscow — New York”, New York, USA
- 2008 — “China... Forward!”, organized by Albert Benamou Gallery (Paris) within the Moscow International Art Fair, TSUM Department Store, Moscow
- 2008 — “MoskvaApolis”, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm,
- 2009 — “One-sixth plus”, within the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, M'ARS Contemporary Art Gallery; NCCA; Zurab Tsereteli Gallery; Vinzavod Art Centre, Moscow
- 2009 — “Chaos — Cosmos”, Fine Arts Center, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2009 — Art Digital 2009, within the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, M'ARS Contemporary Art Gallery, Moscow
- 2009 — Artmultitouch Project, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm
- 2009 — “Night at the Museum”, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art (catalog), Perm
- 2009 — “Journey with the Easel”, The State Russian Museum, Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve, Moscow
- 2009 — stand of the Aidan Gallery at the art fair FIAC-2009, the Grand Palace, Paris, France
- 2009 — Exhibitions of innovative technologies, Perm, St. Petersburg, Moscow
- 2010 — “Gloria Military”, Fine Arts Center, Bratislava, Slovakia
- 2009 — “Darwin's Origin as it seen by Contemporary Artists”, The State Darwin Museum, Moscow
- 2010 — “Stereo Apocalypse”, Triumph Gallery, Moscow
- 2010 — exhibition of members of the Russian Academy of Arts, Paris, France
- 2010 — “If I Only Knew”, from the funds of the MMSI, Moscow
- 2011 — exhibition of members of the Russian Academy of Arts, Pyatigorsk
- 2011 — “Glasstress”, within the parallel program of the 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Cavalli Frachetti, Venice, Italy
- 2011 — Art Moscow 2011 Art Fair, stand of Art & Space Gallery (Munich), Moscow
The works are presented in following collections
- The State Tretyakov Gallery
- The State Russian Museum
- Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
- National Center for Contemporary Art
- Moscow Museum of Modern Art
- Erarta Museum of Contemporary Art
- Russian Academy of Arts
- Yaroslavl Art Museum
- Corporate collection of ZigZag Vencher-Group, USA
- Private collection of A. Glaser
