Russian Artists in Paris: Oleg Burov /Oleg Bourov
Continue to acquaint with the participants of the exhibition "Born in the USSR — made in France", which opens April 22 in Paris.
...presented Masha Schmidt...
Oleg Burov (Oleg Bourov) was born in Moscow in 1942, graduated from the architectural Institute, was engaged in restoration of monuments of architecture, lives in France since 1983-го.
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"Meeting with a sculpture of Oleg Burov occurred in his youth in Moscow, when he first discovered the volume — in all its generosity.
you Create a form is the product of a powerful energy constants; at the border of the rush and chaos of these sculptures materialize contact with the nobility of nature.
Clean, strong line — like the icon of the father's house. This line creates the flesh sculptures, which now commands the gesture. The movement takes the idea that, like fire, extinguished, only to re dazzling flare. These creations in their extreme tension reminiscent of the millennial ideal: the desire to dissolve in a universal brotherhood, space and spirit.
Like a river, billowing ice drift, the Boers said his inspired creations of the universe breathing. He mixes rage and lyricism. Each line maps the state of the human spirit, its beauty, its flour. As the sculptor himself explains: “the Chaos is a long way from suffering to peace”.
Denial of regret about the past, the glorification of feelings, commitment to personal, gleaned from the bottom of the soul — such is the way of the Creator. And Oleg Burov again testifies to the destiny of man, his destiny".
catalogue of the exhibition of Oleg Burov, 2000.
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"C Oleg Burov, we met in the early 1970-х years.
what happened: I found a tiny black kitten and I was wondering where would I attach. Just in case I decided to go to naschokinsky house, where he worked as a watchman then a friend of mine, an archaeologist Igor Pichikyan who started to live there a cloud of artists, though, and suspect that his humanity does not apply to representatives of the feline breed, — and in the yard he came upon a man, voskliknula: “What a wonderful kitty! How did You get it?”. This man was a sculptor Oleg Burov, guarding the last part of the historic mansion. The kitten grew into a prolific cat, named Black, the ancestor of the whole dynasty Prechistenka-остоженских cats. And with Oleg we became friends.
I was immediately surprised and attracted his polychrome sculptures of female figures, like Aphrodite, born from a-то foam, women's faces, similar to dev-цветков from Wagner's “Parsifal”...
Oleg Then moved to France, and our friendship continued. The whole garden of his three-story workshop in the familiar at least by name to all people who love painting, city Ober-сюр-Уаз, hung with birdhouses, bird feeders for the birds. These same birds arrive, lunch and dinner, and if suddenly it turns out that the feeder is empty, insolent and exacting banging on the window. Every morning the resort neighborhood and simply abandoned dogs, cats, squirrels, rabbits, even some-то animals — also with his claims. Oleg understands what they are. Oleg — a specialist in phonetics, morphology, syntax, the language of animals..."
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