On January 24, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art opened the first
major retrospective of Olga Tobreluts, the pioneering Russian
contemporary artist who was one of the first artists ever to use
digital technology in the creation of art. The exhibition
features her new experimental works, as well as her famous
pieces from a number of museums and private collections. Ms
Tobreluts developed the technique of juxtaposing two- and three-
dimensional images that is widely used today. Her art works are
bold manipulations of historical facts and contemporary myths,
amalgamated in a magical super-reality. Ms Tobreluts artistic
career was launched with the debut exhibition of her abstract
paintings on St. Petersburgs Palace Bridge in 1989, alongside
works of the New Artists collective. Following its success, she
moved to Moscow where she lived in Petliuras squat on Petrovsky
Boulevard and continued to work on her abstract paintings and
graffiti. Throughout the 1990s she frequently visited Berlin
where she discovered digital