Baldano, Saranjab

Born in the village of Khoyto-Aga Aginsky aimak of the Buryat-Mongol Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic . He did not remember his father; his mother was dispossessed . Before entering a boarding school, he grew up with a cousin. His three older brothers - Tsyrendorzhi, Tsybigzhab and Daba - died on the fronts of World War II . Childhood passed in the famine of war. In his youth he wandered throughout the Soviet Union in search of his place in life.

After serving in the army in 1953 he entered the Faculty of Journalism of Moscow State University . After graduating from university, he worked as a research fellow at the National Art Gallery in Frunze , then a senior fellow at the Kazakh State Art Gallery named after T. G. Shevchenko . From 1959 to 1961 - Executive Secretary of the Union of Artists of Kazakhstan . In 1960 he was admitted to the Union of Artists of the USSR . From 1963 to 1967 - Chairman of the Union of Artists of the Buryat Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

Serenjab Baldano studied Buryat art and made great efforts in the direction of its development: he wrote art articles in local and central newspapers and magazines, promoting the work of old folk artists and contemporary young artists of Buryatia; gave lectures on radio and television. He was the initiator of the rehabilitation process of repressed representatives of the Buryat culture - artist Galsan Erdeneyn, scholarly enlightener Bazar Baradiyin , religious figure Aghvan Dorzhiev . He laid the foundation for the construction of the village of folk craftsmen in Ivolginsk , the house of artists with workshops, an exhibition and museum exposition on Kuibyshev Street in Ulan-Ude . By the second half of the 1960s, Baldano was defined as a wood sculptor, finding his vocation in this.

In 1968, the artist and his family moved to Alma-Ata , where he devoted himself entirely to sculpture. At the end of 1969, his first solo exhibition was held in the Union of Architects of the Kazakh SSR. In 1976, an exhibition was organized at the Kazakh State Art Gallery. T. G. Shevchenko. In May 1977, a personal exhibition was held in Moscow at the Union of Artists of the USSR on Gogolevsky Boulevard (now the Moscow Museum of Modern Art ), as a result of which the Soviet Artist Publishing House issued a set of postcards dedicated to his work. In August 1990, the second solo exhibition was held in Moscow in the halls of the All-Russian Museum of Decorative, Applied and Folk Art . The catalog and posters for this exhibition were printed in Japan through the Soviet Cultural Foundation . An article was also published in the journal Our Heritage ^[1] . In 1995, an article was published in the journal "Decorative Art" ^[2] . In April 2003, the Alma-Ata art art center ^[3] organized a personal exhibition of sculptures by Serenjab Baldano.

Since 1995 he lived and worked in Moscow. Member of the Moscow Union of Artists .

Family

Mother - Udombra Ochirova.

Wife - Concordia.

Children - Ira, Indira , Inga.

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