Anatoly Shuravlev was born in Moscow in 1963. He lives and works
in Berlin and the city of his birth.
Starting from his early works, he has always explored aspects of
mass communication and the problems related to the representation
and perception of things. Perception is at the center of his
exploration of “the politics of representation”, characterized by
microscopic photographs, either 10x8mm or 10mm in diameter, which
he places on transparent plastic balls mounted along walls and hung
from the ceiling, forming large, differently shaped clusters. In
the 2009 project titled Black Holes, shown at the 53rd Venice Art
Biennale, the artist expanded the same theme, examining the
appearance of perception in light of the relationship between
painting and photography. The work consisted of a room, its walls
covered with black paint splatters that, when viewed from a
distance and taken together, were perceived as part of larger, more
abstract units. Yet, in their centers, they revealed, when seen up
close, small, round photographs.
Shuravlev's works were exhibited at Tokyo’s Setagaya Museum in
1991; the Modern Museum in Stockholm, the Kunstmuseum in Bern, and
the PS1 Museum for Contemporary Art in New York in 1999; Budapest’s
Center for Contemporary Art in 2002; and Moscow’s State Centre for
Contemporary Art in 2004. The artist has participated in the XXII
São Paulo Biennial, Brazil in 1994, and in the 53rd Venice Biennale
in Italy in 2009.
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