Andrej Barov 'Urban Fire 3' Print Available

Artist: Andrej Barov
Title: Urban Fire 3
Medium: Giclee Print
Size: 39.4 x 26.4 Inches
Edition: 150
Prices: $650

 

Andrej Barov, born in Leningrad in 1958, grew up inside a family orchestra of composers and actors, so stage-light and rehearsal-room shadows became his first visual vocabulary. After earning a 1981 theater-studies degree from Leningrad’s Academy of Theatre, Music and Film, he emigrated to Munich in 1988 and turned the proscenium into the pixel, swapping scripts for scanners to probe how media manufactures collective memory. Working photographically, painterly and digitally often on the same canvas Barov “paints” directly into a computer with stylus and brush, then prints, stretches and varnishes the data until the screen’s cold glow warms into tactile pigment.

Series such as Durchlöscher dissect iconic drink labels into vertical color bars, translating brand recognition into abstract scent-triggers, while Correlation re-codes Mediterranean landscapes through an “axial-image requirement principle,” reducing natural vistas to rhythmic signal impulses that test the limits of perceptual psychology. The goal is not documentation but revelation: to make viewers feel how digital fragmentation re-writes history in real time.

Barov’s output has appeared in over 120 European museum and gallery exhibitions since 1988, earning honors that range from the European Photography Award (1993) to Russia’s Ministry of Culture prize (1998) and Germany’s Bronze ADC (2003). Whether he is visualizing the color of perfume or compressing geopolitical timelines into geometric mosaics, Barov keeps asking one question: if our eyes no longer trust reality, what does the mind obey?