Boris Svinin

Sculptor Boris Alexandrovich Svinin (1938-1994).

St.Petersburg, Russia (Leningrad in the Soviet period).

Honored Artist of the RSFSR, Corresponding Member of the USSR Academy of Arts. 
Author of many monumental works of the Soviet period.

In Boris Svinin's works, the past and the present are closely interconnected: the traditional coexists with the new, the classics with modernity. This applies both to the content side of the sculptor's work and to his plastic language.

An ancient plot, often taken from mythology, receives by Svinin a quite modern sound. The famous stylization, reminiscences of classical art in his works are always organic. Appeal to the past - to the ancient myths and legends of the East - allows Pork to identify, sharpen, the most significant, timeless features.
Boris Svinin's works are characterized by the breadth, scope of the phenomenon of human life, genre diversity. The closer we get acquainted with the work of the sculptor, the more imbued with the feeling of his amazing wholeness.

The creative fate of the sculptor is closely connected with Leningrad. In 1965, he graduated from the Leningrad Higher Art and Industrial School named after V. I. Mukhina, and in 1967 he created his first monumental work, the monument "Lembolovo Stronghold", which became part of the Green Belt of Glory, marking the frontiers of Leningrad defense.