Kristian
Burford
Kristian
Burford
Burford
Australian plastic artist Kristian Burford has been creating over the past two decades a form of hyperrealist installations that meticulously stage intimate scenes in a recomposed and credible domestic environment.
The lone actors of these calculatingly cold compositions, naked or scantily clad life-size figures, present each a different form of lack of self-control. The artist forces viewers to become the voyeurs, beyond any kind of contemplation, of a trivial if not disturbing scene, making them involuntary and uncomfortable witnesses.
One of his large-scale installations, Hotel (2011), acquired by the Pinault Collection, was presented to the public in the group show À Triple tour. Collection Pinault (“triple locked”) at the Paris Conciergerie, in 2013.
The lone actors of these calculatingly cold compositions, naked or scantily clad life-size figures, present each a different form of lack of self-control. The artist forces viewers to become the voyeurs, beyond any kind of contemplation, of a trivial if not disturbing scene, making them involuntary and uncomfortable witnesses.
One of his large-scale installations, Hotel (2011), acquired by the Pinault Collection, was presented to the public in the group show À Triple tour. Collection Pinault (“triple locked”) at the Paris Conciergerie, in 2013.
