aristarkh chernyshev's video sculpture warps artistic masterpieces

aristarkh chernyshev’s video sculpture warps artistic masterpieces
all images courtesy of aristarkh chernyshev

first exhibited at the circle of light moscow international festival, aristarkh chernyshev’s video sculpture called ‘userpic’ is a monument to historic masterpieces of art throughout the world. this develops what chernyshev calls, ‘a connection between a profile picture and a renaissance portrait of a wealthy city dweller, who hired an artist to make his portrait to represent himself to the society, i.e. a specific userpic to present oneself to the world.’ the project is the result of experimenting with a minimalistic shape, low-resolution aesthetics, an animated three-dimensional texture, and RGB LED technology. once works, such as the mona lisa and girl with a pearl earring, are applied to the construct via computer-generated programming, the screen displays them in a constant state of fluctuation and variability.

the transformation generated by computer software

RGB LED technology was used throughout the body

the shape appears as a distorted loop that overlaps itself

graphic of all of the works

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