Sergei Alekseyevich Shutov (also spelled Sergey; Russian: ''Сергей Алексеевич Шутов'', born 1955) is a Russian artist active in
painting
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,
drawing
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,
sculpture
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,
photography
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, and audio- and video
installations. He lives and works in Moscow.
He was born in
Potsdam
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, then
East Germany
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. He is a member of numerous arts organizations in Russia, including the Hermitage Association and the
Mayakovsky Friends' club. Since 1993 he has served as president of the Institute of Technology of Art, and since 1994 he has been the Practical Work Supervisor at Moscow Arts Laboratory New Media. He has worked in the
Pushkin Museum
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, the Museum of the East, and the
Moscow Zoo
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History
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, and read lectures at the
Moscow Planetarium. He has worked as a radio
DJ (for
Stantsiya 106.8) and was the first
VJ in Russia, an artist for the magazine Ptyuch, and an actor and artist for the film
''Assa''.
He is also a musician, and composed a soundtrack to the film ''
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari'' (with
Timur Novikov), and the album ''1988''.
Brian Eno
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's album ''
The Shutov Assembly
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'' is named for him, after the painter gifted a painting to Eno.
In 2001 he represented Russia at the
49th Venice Biennale, with the project ''Abacus'', which consists of forty automated figures, all dressed in black robes.
References
Official site including a list of works
External links
including photographs of ''Abacus''
Collection at the Krokin Gallery
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1955 births
Living people
Russian contemporary artists