Magnificent Hermitage opens Digital art at New Manege

Jun 24

Klim Sanatkin reports Moscow New Manege's Magnificent Hermitage multimedia exhibition. It presents high-resolution paintings, palace interiors and sculpture, including the restored digital image of Rembrandt's Flora and works by Leonardo and Raphael. Technical director Maxim Balandin explains scanning and processing detailed 3D models and the months spent recording the Peacock Clock's mechanism, sounds and movements without contact. The report describes animated art, audio interpretation and projection mapping. Interros head Vladimir Potanin speaks about accessibility, digital art, collecting and future donations; Hermitage director Mikhail Piotrovsky calls the project an example of technological sovereignty and says modern technology preserves the feel of a nineteenth-century museum. Claims of uniqueness remain his assessment.

Magnificent Hermitage opens at Moscow's New Manege, presenting detailed digital paintings, sculpture, interiors and the Peacock Clock. The report describes non-contact scanning and months of recording motion and sound, animation, audio interpretation and projection mapping. Vladimir Potanin discusses access, digital art and philanthropy; Mikhail Piotrovsky praises technological sovereignty and the project's uniqueness. These assessments are attributed. This is the multimedia exhibition opening, without a separate national AI programme announcement.