Post by Natalia Kolodzei

Konstanin Khudyakov (born 1945 in Tsarevshchina village, Saratov region; died June 27, 2026) – RIP. Our deepest condolences to his family. A great artist and organizer, kind and supportive of many younger artists, he was a participant in the Gorkom Grafikov and the co-founder of M’ARS. Khudyakov studied at the Moscow Architecture Institute, graduating in 1971. Always fascinated by the perception of the world around him, he tried to interact with and change the viewer’s own perception. Since 2010, he had been focused on creative holography. An architect and industrial designer, he was one of the first artists to use digital media, inventing Multi-Touch Art, through which digital images are processed on a computer and then presented on an interactive screen. Balancing fictional and real spaces, Konstantin Khudyakov, in his work The Eye of an Angel (2007), uses photography and technology in a provocative invasion of digital creatures into the real world; a photograph from the artist’s studio is reflected in the angel’s eye. Filled with digital symbolism and mythology of the end of the old civilization, Khudyakov tries to see not only what can be seen through physical eyes but something beyond that visibility. An angel-observer can see and conceive what lies beyond other people’s perception of the universe, the macro and micro worlds at a time, and embrace all levels of being, from politics to private life, from nature to technology---looking through the eyes of an angel is looking over to Cosmos and Chaos Images: Konstantin Khudyakov and Natalia Kolodzei art Khudyakov studio, 2022 Konstantin Khudyakov, Eagles Arrived, 2004-2007. Ultrachrome print on canvas, Kolodzei Art Foundation Konstantin Khudyakov, The Eye of an Angel, 2007. Ultrachrome print on canvas, 86-5/8 x 130 in. Kolodzei Art Foundation Anna Alexandra, Natalia and Tatiana Kolodzei in front of Konstantin Khudyakov’s The Eye of an Angel at Cosmos and Chaos: CYFEST-13 at the National Arts Club, New York City. Konstantin Khudyakov, In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was "Das Kapital" 2017. 3-D-Mirror, stereo panel, 68 x 68 cm. Kolodzei Art Foundation Konstantin Khudyakov, Borovsk Courtyard, 2005-2007. Ultrachrome print on canvas, 55-1/16 inches. Kolodzei Art Foundation.