Nikita Savostyanov

The Real Ting (Victorian edition)

The Real Ting (Victorian edition) — Nikita Savostyanov

Sculpture

80x210x50 cm

Plywood, print on paper, abs, iron powder

2026

The sculpture imitates Victorian infrastructure mixed with a Roman capital.


Within the framework of ‘Artificial Realism’, the artist creates ‘physical renders,’ combining digital fabrication with analogue processes to translate the logic of 3D modeling into deceptive, hollow surfaces stripped of mass and function. These works play on the Victorian obsession with the ‘authentic fake’—the belief that mechanical processes could produce a reality more perfect than the original.

The Real Ting (Victorian edition) — Nikita Savostyanov
The Real Ting (Victorian edition) — Nikita Savostyanov

photo: Jacob Sirkin