2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
The porcelain beauties of Marina Bychkova are a fragile combination of Vrubel's femininity with the playfulness of Nabokov's Lolita. Thin hands on steel lines, big sad eyes, silky hair and gentle girlish forms - the bewitching charm and exquisitely tragic beauty of the dolls, enliven them. Graceful and mysterious, these puppets seem to embody the ideal of “eternal femininity”.
Marina writes on her website: “I realized that I was destined to become a puppet sculptor at the age of six. As a child, I was deeply shocked by the dullness of the mass production of dolls (which, moreover, were quite mediocre). This disappointment, combined with my natural talent, inspired me to create the first doll that would embody my ideal of female beauty. I want not only to recreate the body correctly, but also to breathe life into it, to create a balance between beauty and puppetry."
Marina Bychkova was born in the southwest of Siberia in 1982. When the girl was 14, she immigrated to Vancouver (Canada) with her parents and two younger sisters. There, in 2001, Marina graduated from high school, and then entered the Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, which she left in 2006 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree.
The training program at ECIAD did not quite suit the young artist due to excessive attention to abstract theories without backing them up with worthy practice that would develop the professional skills of future specialists. Therefore, in parallel with her studies, Marina attended various jewelry courses every year, where she mastered traditional and modern technologies of working with various materials and creating truly precious objects from them.
We have already written about Oksana Mironova's designer dolls and about big-eyed porcelain girls from the German master Siu Ling Wang. And each of them has its own special creative style, it seems that each of these dolls has its own character, that it is not easy toys for adults, but living people with their own feelings and habits. It seems that there is a whole story behind each of these figures that they simply cannot tell us.
You can see more dolls from Marina on her website.
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