Exhibition by Yusuke Akamatsu "Transfiguration" Automatic translate

The State Central Museum of Contemporary History of Russia will host the exhibition "Transfiguration" by the Japanese master of digital painting Yusuke Akamatsu. The exhibition project will be open to visitors for just a few days until September 8, 2021.

Having won success at many leading contemporary art fairs, the Japanese digital artist will bring his works to Russia for the first time. Yusuke Akamatsu’s works at the Transfiguration exhibition are dedicated to the theme of individual awakening.

As a canvas, Yusuke Akamatsu uses his gadget - iPhone. The basis is made up of photographs, which the artist transforms into deep abstract images with the help of fantasy and bright colors.

“The Digital Finger Painting technique implies the use of modern capabilities of computer technology,” says the curator of the exhibition Natalia Bezrukova. "This leading direction in media art provides absolutely special opportunities for the creator to make the image livelier and more expressive."

Yusuke Akamatsu’s digital art is not only finger art, the author has his own philosophical approach. He raises such a problem as the role of man in this world. At the same time, Yusuke has a rather romantic and nostalgic view of the world. The author is not ironic, but states: "There is still hope for the best."

“In his project Transfiguration, Yusuke Akamatsu reflects on the theme of the surrounding space,” comments the exhibition’s curator Natalia Bezrukova. - His paintings are the images with which he develops such psychological states as fear, aggression, expectation, surprise, alertness. Mankind has been experiencing all these conditions especially strongly for the last year and a half. "

By "transfiguration" the artist means the transformation of the world and, above all, of the person himself. “Before you start transforming the world, start this transformation from yourself,” says Yusuke Akamatsu.

After 15 years in television in Japan, Yusuke Akamatsu left the country in 1997 to travel across Asia and Europe and begin his career as an artist. In his travels around the world, he felt that changes in society are happening very quickly. To keep track of them, you need to strive to expand the boundaries of your perception, not forgetting to refer to the knowledge and experience accumulated over the history of mankind.

The exhibition project "Transfiguration", consisting of original vivid photographic images, encourages the viewer to search for himself in the atmosphere of the bustle of a modern metropolis.

“Only by developing, working on ourselves and taking full responsibility for our lives, we, as a species, can change the world for the better,” says the author of the project