Surrealism in Sculpture: Exhibition of Alexander Burganov
The Burganov House Moscow State Museum presents a show of works by Alexander Burganov entitled Surrealism in Sculpture. Though the surrealism is well represented in European museums and papers of art historians, the most difficult sometimes is to define its stylistic outlines.
Partly, it is connected with the fact, that founders and followers of this movement not once have changed their conceptual positions in art. Moreover, it is evident, that the surrealism as a phenomenon unites artists, whose artistic styles are frequently easily tested by markers of other stylistic directions. However, in their works one can sense some common nerve, which clearly conveys the separation with the existing world, with ordinary measures of its appreciation and opens possibilities for the creation of a new, unpredicted reality with the transformed notions of the existence, images, artistic gestures. As Robert Desnos brilliantly wrote: “I say “how” and everything changes, marble turns into water, the sky – into an orange, the wine – into a plain”…
Today, the images of Russian surrealism, like the European one, are polyvalent and polysemantic. The spaces are shifted and broken. The exterior is mixed up with the interior, objects change their ordinary qualities obtaining a new substance. Especially attractive for Russian artists is the essence of transformations emphasizing the depth of the idea.
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