VITALY PUSHNITSKY

Large-scale monochromatic drawing represents an abandoned construction site, reminding of ruins of an ancient city. A video is projected on the picture: it shows a daycycle – sunrise, noon, sunset, stellar motion. Everlasting circulation of the cosmos over futility of human efforts.

The project “Studio. Waiting” is a large-format canvas with an attached device that allows to see the story anew and to refresh the image without the intrusion of one art form into another. This is an attempt visually to demonstrate both independence and coexistence of the traditional form — painting — and the newest means of augmented reality. The project investigates game theory (including a game with an absent character) in its contemporary, virtual-psychological aspect. The picture is separated from the device; nothing is projected onto it. It serves just as a switch-on point, a pretext to expand the boundaries imposed by the bored glance of a visitor to the exhibition. The painting and the program live and work together, much like people coexist on networks. This peculiar symbiosis allows to bring technology to a discussion of the same questions that are posed by classical art.