Vladimir Buinachev: Path of Cognition

The Moscow Museum of Modern Art presents a Path of Cognition solo exhibition of work by a renowned sculptor Vladimir Buinachev. It is not the first  collaboration between the Museum  and Vladimir Buinachev: three years ago, in August 2005 on show in the Museum was Buinachev’s Tragedy of a Sculptor installation inspired by wooden  sculptures by Dmitri Tsaplin, a forgotten craftsman of the Soviet time. Then, Vladimir Buinachev was the project’s  initiator and curator. At present, the Museum exhibits a retrospective of the sculptor’s works.

According to Buinachev, the sculpture for him is a “trip to the world of space, form and time”. That is a reason why the master prepares for creation of his work as thoroughly as a pilgrim for his wandering.  Everything should be under control: equipment; tool kit, anti-light, anti-dust and -sound irritants protection. The aim of such a journey  - an execution of  some plastic idea –  is permanently kept in the artist’s  mind. At the same time, Buinachev never plans his route, he works without sketches and yields to the image. The sculptor says, that he does not “foresee and anticipate”, he lives with the material “always in the hope of something sudden, unpredictable and even miraculous at some extent”, as it is boring to know what is going to come out of it”.

Vladimir Buinachev (born in 1938) graduated from Stroganov School of Art. Since 1969 he has been a member of Moscow Union of Artists. Buinachev started out as a sculptor at the age of 25: he began to work in wood,  later in stone and bronze.  Simultaneously, since his childhood he has been keen on literature. He wrote poetry and prose, studied  literary monuments and in 1998 published a book “New Understanding of Word About Igor’s  Regiment: the author is known”. Buinachev took part in more than twenty symposiums on sculpture, in many Russian and international exhibitions. His works are in collections of the Tretyakov Gallery, Russian Museum, A. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow,  M. Nesterov Museum in Ufa, as well as in museums in Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary, Japan, Morocco,  Sweden.






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