The Russian Academy Of Arts

The show marks the 30th anniversary of the creative work of Maria Burganova, Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Arts, sculptor, painter,  Doctor of Art History.

 

Maria Burganova belongs to the circle of artists who are integrally connected with centuries-old traditions of culture. In her works one can clearly sense her inner ties with antique art, Old Russian plastic art, European neoclassicism. Each of her works is simultaneously an experiment and an outcome, an overcoming of ordinary existence, an emotional breakthrough and harmony re-gaining. The work of Maria Burganova, a perfect sculptor, painter and graphic artist, shows dramatic effects, energy, depth and multi-dimensional character of the time.

 

The artist’s favorite materials are wood and metal. Maria Burganova creates in wood metaphoric compositions evoked by mythological and Biblical images. Her complicated structures are composed of several elements, big forms and supplementing details. Assembled by means of metal sprigs, her figures obtain a capacity to change their configuration, to revolve and transform themselves in the space. The metal dictates other themes. In Burganova’s sculptural metal constructions there is a triumph of a parody post-modernist engineering, a kind of heraldic shaman’s objects. The metal in her sculptures becomes a working mechanism, a Mobile and looks bellicose and romantic.

 

Like many artists of the turn of the 21st century, Maria Burganova is inspired by images connected with the history of culture, origins and formation of civilizations,  Biblical texts.  Burganova proceeds from an allegorical figure, a classical genre for the European plastic art, that was most visible in the 20th century in the work of Antoine Bourdelle and Aristide Maillol. She has found her own concept and created a distinctive version of an allegorical figure with its special structure and emotional style.

 

She is represented in collections of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts in Moscow, Palace of Nations in Geneva,  state museums in Russia, Germany, Great Britain, the United States, Greece, Belgium and other countries.   

 

Maria Burganova is a Professor of the Chair in Monumental and Decorative Sculpture of S. Stroganov Moscow State Arts and Industrial University.




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