Anatoly Shuravlev (Moscow, 1963)
His artistic career began in the milieu of the Moscow Conceptualism and lead him to exploring the connections between different cultures, frequently also in reflecting the conditions of perception in the mediatized space. Apart from works with photographs and installations he also creates paintings and objects. Shuravlev took part in numerous major survey exhibitions dedicated to Russian art, including Moderna Museet, Stockholm (1999-2000); Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (1999-2000); Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (1989). Biennials: Venice Biennale (2009); Moscow Biennale (2005); São Paulo Biennial (1994).
Lives and works in Moscow.
Panic (2011): Anatoly Shuravlev was strongly influenced in the 1980s when focusing on the circle of the Moscow conceptualists. In his own conceptual works, he addresses issues of representation, politics of imagery and the perception of the photographic and digital image. Alongside his artistic work, Shuravlev is also active as a curator and, from 2009 to 2011, directed one of the first project spaces in Moscow, Aftergallery. Panic is his first video work, created in the context of his solo exhibition, being the last show before the closure of Aftergallery. It shows the artist in the “white cube” of the gallery, as he shoots a gun at the surrounding white walls, leaving large holes in the architecture. With subtle irony Shuravlev here combines the chauvinist pose of the armed man and the attitude of the artist with his expansive urge for overcoming and conquering the (exhibition) space. In the holes, violently caused by the shots, Shuravlev presented his small-format photographs during the exhibition, their subjects also being connected to the issue of violence.