Oleg Buryan
Buryan Oleg (born 1959) is a Russian painter.
References
NAME Buryan, Burjan, Burian, Burgyan
There is a theory that all/most of this names could be traced to St. Buryana, a Celtic missionary from the 5th century.
During the Scilly Isle wars (932 AD), Cornish Buryans collaborated with the English king and were rewarded with baronial arms. This entailed the obligation to defend the English king when called upon. At the Battle of Hastings (1066 AD) they lost their Cornish lands to the Normans, were taken prisoners of war and exiled to Northern France These Buryans travelled down the Danube and were feared as “raub ritters”. As they travelled, forgetting English and acquiring German, Hungarian and Czech, Buryans became Burians, Burjans and Burgyans.
First name mentioned in Hungarian documents was Johannes Burian in 1411. Burians were nobled in 1601 by Rudolph I of Austria. Hungarian Burgyans were nobled in 1694 and Burians in 1725.
Oleg's family – is much eastern branch of this tree.
Artist was born in the old Kievan Russ town – Belaya Tserkov (White Church) capital Kiev – near by.
Oleg Buryan growth in space of stagnation. In time of Gagarin, Cold War and lying soviet propaganda.
Optimism, hippysm, cheap wine, banks of Ross-river, green of cannabis. Memories takes Oleg back to the atmosphere of mom's laboratory in university – chicken soup armed in a chemist's bowl, portraits of longhaired Russian scientists Lomonosov and Mendeleev, who looked like anti-soviet rock-stars. Taste for art was formed by old pictures and icons in the house of Grandad Buryan and original pictures of second grandfather – Pavel Alexandrov. He was an artist, academically educated in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg Academy of Fine Arts and killed by bolshevics in 1928.
First art education come from his notebooks, describing painting techniques and pages of women names, dates of their birthdays and favorite perfumes. Seems Oleg was fated to be an artist. He did not find himself, study medicine in Leningrad Medical Academy, working as lawyer's secretary, street cleaner or boiler stroker (charismatic job of Oleg's generation soviet intellectuals), even as an bureaucrat. Buryan spent fist years of Gorbachov's Perestroika in the chair of the last soviet censor for rock-lyrics at Moscow State Department of culture.
Art education artist get in Moscow textile college at 80-s He studied video-art and independent documentary at Moscow State University from Deidre Boyle 1994-95
In his objects could be found elements of archaic and the ethnic art. In the end of 1980-s Oleg was in the lead of Russian artistic movement called “New archaic”, or – “Arriere-garde”.
The art of “artists, looking back” – was a way to protest against official Soviet artestablishment propaganda and cynical exploitation term “Russian Avant-garde”, as a commercial brand.
Buryan's works are characterized by a great amount of versatility in both choice of media and general style, ranging from oil paintings to art toys,from book illustration to monumental sculpture, from media art to installations, TV and industrial design.
“Recycled art“ is another name for Buryan's art. Some of sculptures done as “ready-made” objects and related to tradition of “DA-DA” in their absurd humor and strange beauty of animals with human eyes.
Oleg's transition of the recycled technology from modern environment culture to the field of art makes his objects contemporary and timely.
Buryan's artefacts belong to corporate collections of Bank West LB (Germany) and Amer Group (Finland), collection of University of Dundee (Scotland) and collections of Kiev State Museum of Russian Art, St. Petersburg Toy Museum and Venice Sculpture park.
Many things are in private collections and public places.
Oleg Buryan is a member of Moscow Union of artists since 2003.
Have silver medal of All Russian Exhibition Center and six children.
Live and work in Moscow.
External links
Projects:
http://www.rhiz.eu/person-35769-en.html
http://mymondomix.com/index.php?action=profile&pid=
Press:
http://www.russiatoday.ru/Interview/2008-02-27/Interview_with_Oleg_Buryan.html
http://www.nonsolocinema.com/nsc_articolo.php3?id_article=1363
http://www.russiajournal.com/node/10045
http://www.bg.ru/article?id=4031
http://d-desyateryk.livejournal.com/110086.html#cutid1
http://www.trud.ru/issue/article.php?id=200810302051301
Main shows and projects:
1986-1988: Autumn exhibitions at Gallery on Malaja Gruzinskaja, 28 – Moscow
1988-1989: All-Union of Young Artists exhibition at Manezh – Moscow
1990: WestLB Bank – International Trade center (Hummer-Center) Moscow
1991: Performance “Citizens of the Night”, Edinburgh Theater Festival, 369 Gallery Scotland
1992: “International Incindent” solo show French Institute, Edinburgh UK
1993: “Bald Buryans” solo show at DAR Gallery Contemporary art center, Moscow
1994: Collaboration with Cadogan Publishers, (“Illustrations for book Moscow and St. Petersburg”, written by Rose Baring) London
Foundation “Sirin prints” (postcards) together with W. Shon – Oxford UK
1995: “Anabasis” – at State Museum of Russian art, Kiev
1996: “Serious Games” at St. Perersburg Toy Museum – St. Perersburg
1998: Solo Show at Christian Democratic Foundation named by Hans Zeidel – Kiev – Munich
2000: Solo show at Russian-Italian center, Milano Italy
2001: Collaboration with “Last Hero” (“Survival”) TV ORT (artdirector) – Panama – Moscow
2004: “Making Moves” – at Gallery “Six Chapel Row and Hitchcocks” – Bath, UK
2005: “Haim+Handwerk” – International Art-toys Show Munich Germany
2005: “Not-naiv-toys done by Buryan” solo show, at “Toys museum” – St.Petersburg
2005: “Recycled Art” at Central House of Artist (solo show) – Moscow
2005: 6 sculptures for Venice Sculpture park – Venice Italy
2005: “Art-toys in Burg Wildegg” – Austria
2005: “Art-toys” at Gallery Handwerk Munich Germany
2006: International Spilzman Award (short list) Berlin Germany
2006: “Councours Europeen de Sculptures monumentales” for Arcellor Mittal (short list, catalogue) France
2007: “Something Brewing Bier” for International project by Utreht University (catalogue) Stedelijk – Leiden Museum Holland
2008: Mural “Grunewald” (300 sq meters) Noginsk Russia
ArtZepter-2008 International Design Award (shortlist) Milano Italy Project “Ecoart for Google-maps” – First International festival of Ecoart in Kronshtadt. St-Petersburg
2009: International Award of sculpture at Museum of Contemporary Art “MAXXI” Rome
web-project “Make love – not war” for “Rizhome” (New Museum of Contemporary art New York)
Buryans (family project) for European Cultural Foundation Show “Dialogue” at Moscow State Museum of decorative and applied art