Результаты аукциона
Sergey Shutov / Ursa Major. 2017. Oil on canvas, mixed media. 65×70 cm.
Sergei Shutov was born in 1955 in Potsdam. He has been participating in exhibitions since 1978. In the 1970s, in co-authorship with Arkady Slavarosov (Guru), he wrote a famous manifesto of the Moscow hippies, the text Canon. In 1986 he organized his first solo exhibition, In memory of Daniil Kharms, in the Mayakovsky Museum and took part in the famous 17th Youth Exhibition, at which he became one of the most prominent representatives of the «new wave». He was one of the inhabitants of the famous art squat in Furmanny Lane in Moscow. In 1987 he joined a number of art unions founded by independent artists: amateur association Hermitage, Leningrad Mayakovsky Friends Club, the Academy of All Arts (Moscow-Leningrad), and later received the status of the «first academician». In 1989 he headed the department of graphic art of the Free Academy (Moscow). In 1987, as an actor and artist, he worked on the filming of the iconic film Assa, directed by Sergei Soloviev, and organized the Art-Rock Parade of ACCA before premier show. In 1988 he was represented at the first Moscow Sotheby’s auction, after which he was invited for solo exhibitions to Paris, Glasgow, New York, and also presented at the largest expositions of unofficial Soviet art in Europe and the United States. In the late 1980s and early 1990s he worked at the intersection of painting, music, performance, video and new media. He participated in concerts of the group Pop Mechanics and released a CD «1988» in 1988. 1989-1992 — worked in television. In 1992 he created the first multimedia installation in Russia — Sensual Experiences. At the same time he founded and headed the Institute of Technology of Art and organized the first exhibition of video art in Russia (1993). Since 1994 he has directed master classes at the Moscow Art Laboratory of New Media. In 1994, on the radio station «106.8», as a DJ he led the program Shutov Assembly, named for the same album of Brian Eno, and dedicated to Sergei Shutov. He worked as a VJ in the very popular club Ptyuch, practically opening this profession in Russia. In the 2000s he created a series of large-scale multimedia installations, including the Abacus (2001) in the Russian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, Carpet-Hydrangea (2003), Apokatastasis Now (2006). In 2015 for Arsenal in Nizhny Novgorod he created his biggest work Loop of Nesterov (10×8m). His works are in the collections of the Pushkin Art Museum, the State Tretyakov Gallery, the State Russian Museum, National Centre for Contemporary Arts, the Ministry of Culture, Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow House of Photography, The Other Art Museum, the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, the Ludwig Museum (Aachen), the Art4Ru museum, the MART Museum (Rovereto, Italy), The New Academy of Fine Arts (St. Petersburg), Chronolux, Lufthansa (Germany), the Federation of Migros cooperatives (Switzerland), the Mikroinform corporate collection, Fund «Metafuturizm» and other corporate and private collections in the UK, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, Russia and France.
