The new age of virtual perception. The god of global networks; searches exploring a paradise of endless possibilities; a world outside time. What better themes could there be for any artist experimenting with digital art? The avant-gardist Sergei Volkov has, in this, done the obvious. His current exhibition of only six large pictures encompassing a metaphysical vision of virtual existence guides the viewer into an unearthly future inhabited by inhuman clones.

Some figures are propelled through space by some energy other than their own, while others, imprisoned by words, are lost in an eternal mobility. A god loses his momentum: No more than a silhouette, he sits exhausted in shadow and oblivion as though repulsed by the glow of light behind him. Other figures take shape elsewhere – in this environment where ether, water and mass know no boundaries, even the gods are cloned. They are new and small and they evolve out of spherical shapes on which they advance in ever-increasing numbers towards an undefined goal.

How Volkov has achieved his effects has so far remained something of a professional secret. But if it were to be said that what he describes as "computer print-outs" result from the combination of human and virtual creativity, it would not be far from the truth.

The exhibition runs until Nov. 10.

Gelman Gallery.
7/7 Bldg. 5 Malaya Polyanka Ul.
Metro: Polyanka.
Tel: 238-2783.
Hours: Noon to 6 p.m.
Closed Sun./Mon.
Cover: None.