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Maya Burman
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"I find I must enter the fantasy world of children in order to paint."
Maya Burman, is the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman. The striking thing about her paintings is the amount of detail in them. In formal terms Maya Burman`s paintings have a tapestry like effect where everything is subordinate to patterning, reminiscent of the French art nouveau tradition. The figures have an archetypal aura about them and...
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"I find I must enter the fantasy world of children in order to paint."
Maya Burman, is the daughter of the well-known painter Sakti Burman. The striking thing about her paintings is the amount of detail in them. In formal terms Maya Burman`s paintings have a tapestry like effect where everything is subordinate to patterning, reminiscent of the French art nouveau tradition. The figures have an archetypal aura about them and their rendering in a clean decisive manner has its sources in Picasso`s later classical period, his return after the war into an idyllic land inhabited by healthy and young boys of Athenian ideal.
Maya Burman`s technique is a slow step-by-step process of accumulation of marks. She makes a pencil sketch first, then applies the layer of water colours and finishes the outlines and detail in black ink with a pen. There is certain precision to the rendering, a legacy perhaps of her training as an architect, which contrasts nicely with the ambiguities of the themes that she handles. The paintings are a meeting ground of two cultures - Indian as well as French. The details of Indian miniature painting and European Middle Age architecture merge in her art, and literature and poetry are also very much present as they provide her with new images, as the poetry of Spanish Frederico Garcia Lorex or the Japanese `Iku`. Her compositions are mostly figurative and change according to her mood.
Ms. Burman lives in Paris but in her paintings she retires to a land of lyricism and allegory.
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Born
July 11, 1971
Villeneuve sur Lot, France
Education
3 Years of Architecture in Paris
1993 Travel for one year in India. Work with the ‘Centre for built environment, Kolkata’ for the survey of North Kolkata,
Exhibitions
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'A Dreamer’s Labyrinth', Art...
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011 'A Dreamer’s Labyrinth', Art Musings Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Once Upon A Time’, Art Musings Gallery, Mumbai
2007 Organized by Gallerie Ganesha at Shridharani Gallery, Triveni Kala Sangam, New Delhi
2005 Apparao Gallery, Chennai
2005 ‘Intex’, Colours on Canvas, Dubai
2004 ‘A Journey’, Art and Soul,
2003 ‘Reclaiming The Lotus’, Apparao Gallery, Chennai
2002 Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi
2002 Art Musings, Mumbai
2002 Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2001 Mediatheque du Lamentin, Martinique
2000-01 Apparao Gallery, Chennai
2000 Festival du Cinema Asiatique, Vesoul, France
2000 Art Today Gallery, New Delhi
1998 Theatre de Chaoue, Allonnes, France
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010 'Besides Paris', Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata
2009 'Far & Wide .... Everywhere You Look', Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi
2009 'Beyond the Form', Bajaj Capital Art House; Visual Art Gallery, India Habitat Centre, New Delhi and Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2009 'Transcending Boundaries', The Nehru Centre, London
2008 'X at the rate of Jehangir', presented by Art Musings at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai
2008 ‘The Sacred’, presented by Galleria at Museum Art Gallery, Mumbai
2007 ‘Reading Paint’, Gallery Soulflower, Bangkok
2007 ‘High on Art’, Visual Art Gallery, Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
2007 ‘An Evening in Paris....Rome....London’, Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
2007 Gallery 27, Cork Street, London
2007 ‘Emerging Indian Artists’, Royal Academy of Art, London
2007 Visual Art, London
2004 Visual Art, London
2003 Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
2001 Musee de la Poste, Paris
2000 Musee de la Tour Carree, Ste Maxime, France
1999 Indian Embassy, Paris
1999 Galerie Boyrie, Strasbourg, France
1998 Centre of International Modern Art (CIMA), Kolkata
1998 Gallery Ganesha, New Delhi
1997 Apparao Gallery, Chennai
1995 Galerie Sauret, Fumel, France
1995 Galerie 51, Villeneuve sur Lot, France
Joint Exhibitions
2010 'Fables and History', with Binoy Varghese at Gallerie Nvya, New Delhi
2008 ‘Smile of the Hearth’, With Maite Delteil at Gallery Sanskriti, Kolkata
Participations
2010 Annual Exhibition, Chawla Art Gallery, New Delhi
1998,99,2000,01,02,03,04 Salon d’Automne, Paris
1997,98,99,2000,01,02,03,04 Salon de Colombes, France
1998,2000,01,02 Salon de Sannois, France
2000,01,03 Salon du Xeme, Paris
2000 Salon d’ Art Contemporain, St Remy les Chevreuses, France
1999 Salon de Beauvais, France
1998 Salon du XVeme, Paris
1998, 99 Salon du petit format du XVeme, Paris
Honours and Awards
2002 Prix Lucie Rivel, Taylor Fundation, France
2000 Award for the Watercolor Section, Salon de Colombes, France
2000 Selected for the Award of the Salon d’ Automne, Paris
1998 Award for the Fine Art Association of Sannois, France
1997 Award for Young Painters Section, Salon de Colombes, France
2002 Prix Lucie Rivel, Taylor Fundation, France
2000 Award for the Watercolor Section, Salon de Colombes, France
2000 Selected for the Award of the Salon d’ Automne, Paris
1998 Award for the Fine Art Association of Sannois, France
1997 Award for Young Painters Section, Salon de Colombes, France
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You were born in Paris, brought up in an atmosphere of art. When did you seriously take up painting?
I took up painting at about 26. I stopped my studies in architecture and came in India for few years. When I came back in France, I left for good architecture and decided to paint.
What do you feel about painting?
Painting is my life. During my childhood,...
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You were born in Paris, brought up in an atmosphere of art. When did you seriously take up painting?
I took up painting at about 26. I stopped my studies in architecture and came in India for few years. When I came back in France, I left for good architecture and decided to paint.
What do you feel about painting?
Painting is my life. During my childhood, it was like an everyday routine because I used to see my parents painting all the time. I just see my life through painting. Even when I am not working, I continue to mature my painting. When I see Art, or read a book, it has also an influence on my work. When I paint, it is my life, my emotions and my pains, which are coming on the paper.
Both your parents are renowned painters. How have they influenced your form of expression?
I always saw my parents painting. Our sensibility is close. Our personal mythology is also similar. We always have discussions about our work and I learned a lot about my work like through these discussions.
Despite being based in Paris, your roots are Indian. Does your work also reflect this cross-cultural heritage?
I am a product of a cross-cultural meeting. So are my paintings. But I don't want it to be the illustration of my European or Indian background. I prefer to think that it is universal.
Among the several Indian artists, whose work do you appreciate most or consider closest?
I appreciate the work of painters whose sensibility is closer to mine: Sakti Burman, Jayasree Burman. I also appreciate the intricate and meticulous work of Jogen Chowdhury and Anju Chowdhury ( Based in Paris ). I like Sujata Bajaj 's work and the way she uses color.
Having studied architecture, has it influenced your art in any way?
Architecture was my first step toward painting. While studying architecture I started drawing with ink and pen, it made me familiar with the medium. I also tend to build my composition on the paper in a very regular way, like a building
How were your earlier days as a painter?
I am still in my " earlier days". I should wait 20 more years to answer this question.
An artist's work matures with him. How do you see yourself today in relation to your work? What are the significant changes that you sense in your work?
Painting is my life, and my work is the expression of my life. I spend a long time on each painting and from the moment I start it, till the end, it has time to mature. I can't say that there were significant changes in my work in those years. But this is a day-to-day learning and practicing which is adding to the quality of the work.
What would you consider the turning point in your artistic career?
Right now, the turning point in my artistic career was the day I was able to accept myself as a painter. The day I was ready to assume that my painting was the reflection of myself and I was able to exhibit it.
Do your beliefs and philosophy of life reflect in your paintings? How?
I have no statement to make about philosophy. My philosophy is very personal. The same goes with my painting. It has nothing to do with a theory. It is like a part of my life I'm giving like a gift to people who want to share it.
You seem to be comfortable with watercolours. Why this particular fondness for the medium? Do you also work in other media?
Watercolor is an important part of my work - I use it to give a kind of mood at a special point of the time. The drawing takes a long time and is transcription emotions.
Yes, I have also started working with acrylic on canvas.
What are your predominant concerns as an artist?
My first concern as an artist is to be able to continue painting. Then if I can share that passion, create vocation, this is good. But I can't say that I want to spread any message through my painting. Only I want to communicate joy.
What are your earlier memories as an artist?
My earlier memory is the first time my work was accepted in a group show in France. I even had a price. That day I understood that people appreciated my work and paid interest in it.
Why is so important for an artist to be disciplined?
You have to be very disciplined as an artist to give the maximum of time to your work. The rest of the world tries to get you out of your studio. So you have to follow a sort of routine to be able to paint.
Could you describe your work process? Your preferred style?
I work in many steps. The first wash is made with watercolour to give a unity. Then I work with ink and pen. Then I come back with watercolor for details.
What are you currently working on?
These days I'm working on the Metamorphosis of Ovide, the Roman poet. It is not an illustration of the mythology, but my feelings about it.
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