(#1) B o o m e r M a g a z i n e
(#1) B o o m e r M a g a z i n e
Olga Melekhina
Mari Kiroho
Born in Russia and based in Riga, Latvia, I am an artist and de-
Mari Kiroho (real name Maria Danilenko) was born in Omsk,
signer working primarily with clay. In the last three years I got
Russia in 1999. At the moment she lives and works in Mos-
a Master’s Degree in ceramics at the Latvian Academy of Arts
cow. Currently, she is a 4th year BA student at the sculpture
and began my studies towards MA in sculpture, concentrating
department of Moscow State Academic Art Institute named
on hand built clay objects.
after V. I. Surikov at the Russian Academy of Arts. Her inspira-
The focus of my current research falls on large-scale artistic
tion involves both the variable character of human’s individual
installations in natural environment along the lines of Green
plastiques and the intricacies of people’s emotional states. In
Art and Process Art.
her work she explores the depiction of one inner state through
As an artist, I am interested in the meeting point of the phil-
outer feature such as volume, shape and overall stylistic ex-
osophical and the aesthetic: the beauty and the horror of the
pression.
modern age, the frailty of human existence, the curse and the
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blessing of time, and the imprints we leave on this ever-changing world.
Tools
Oxygen Dreams
The Beginning Size: 127 x 10 x 10 cm
Osadochek
Size: 40 x 12 x 7 cm
Size: 60 x 160 x 70 cm
Size: 60 x 46 x 24 cm
Medium : clay handbuild
Medium: porcelain
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Medium : bronze
Medium: bronze
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