Anna Taguti

The press release of Anna Taguti

The range of the artist’s creative capacities is very broad: painting, mosaics, unique graphics (hand-made), hand-made serigraphy, a new know-how of working with photographed materials and drawing. This range of capacities is not just a game of mind or experimental interest. Anna Taguti’s works are marked with the urge to make use of the centuries-old experience of the Oriental and Occidental cultures. The combination of images, philosophies, colors of different cultures, as it has survived through the history, is flesh and blood of her work. Time is an artist, creating non-stop through the centuries. Anna Taguti attempts to save, to this freeze creative action of Time; she aims to catch the intricate interaction of cultures. This is why the methods she employs differ so much.


In my work I try to discover the inner connection and energy, which are collected by the historic material through the ages. This energy is a result of a colossal work of Time, in which there is more losses and grief. For example, Time has destroyed the Library of Alexandria and saved the buried ruins of Pompeii under the Lava of Vesuvius. In the historic perspective our life seems like a pa...

Moscow Art School
Academy of Arts named after Surikov - department of monumental painting

Short list of exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2015 project “People”, multy-media installation, video-art by Anna Shapiro, art-center Fабрика, Moscow, Russia
2014 project “Sheet”, multy-media installation, video-art by Anna Shapiro, art-center Makaronka, Rostov-na-Donu, and art-center Fабрика, Moscow, Russia
2013 “Laces & Surges “, textile, graphics, panels, Erarta-Galleries, London
2012 “The Eighth Project”, textile, panels, plaster casts and art-video, Erarta-Galleries, New-York
2009 “The Eighth Project”, textile, panels, plaster casts and art-video, art-center Fабрика, E.K.ArtBureau, Moscow, Russia
2008 Project “Sings and Directions”, objects, panels, plaster casts and art-video
(of A. Shapiro and S. Pigach), E.K.ArtBureau, Moscow, Russia
2006 Project “Second Soul”, objects and art-video (of A.Shapiro and S.Pigach),
Elena Vrublevskaya´s gallery, Moscow, Russia
2003 Project “Китай\china”, gallery Manegе, Moscow, Russia
1998 Project “Nameless Orient”, State Museum of Oriental Arts, Moscow, Russia
1995 Project “Tsarizm”, Yakut Gallery, Moscow, Russia
1994 Project “Gestalt”, Exhibition Center Phoenix, Moscow, Russia
1993 Project “Palimpsest”, Former Lenin Museum, Moscow, Russia
1992 Exhibit...