VINYL MOON

Artist Highlight

Alexey Kondakov

Kyiv, Ukraine

The eye-catching work of Alexey Kondakov recontextualizes figures from early modern painting, superimposing them onto documentary-style photographs of mundane modern scenery. A glimpse of this work can be startling, like finding yourself sitting across from Venus de Milo during your morning commute. In a radical act of collage, the artist made a name for himself by photoshopping characters from old world masterpieces into locations around his hometown of Kyiv, Ukraine. In this way, Kondakov has developed a style that incorporates both cutting edge technology and the methods and methods of antiquity. The effect is a re-enchantment of the modern world, suggesting that perhaps our everyday lives are populated by the same saints, sinners and angels of bygone ages, experiencing all the attendant agonies and ecstasies of life alongside the rest of us.