Svetlana Melnichenko

Svetlana Melnichenko was born in Kishinev (Moldavian SSR). After graduating from the Ilya Repin Moldavian Republic Art College in 1985, she studied at the Leningrad Vera Mukhina Higher School of Art and Design between 1987 and 1993.

Svetlana’s sculptures have a special drawing power: deliberately devoid of sharp angles, they tend to be streamlined and rounded. The artist shuns monumentality. Her favourite materials are marble and bronze. Melnichenko’s principal subject is love in all its forms, be it the sudden passion between a man and a woman, the tenderness of a mother cuddling her baby, the harmony of two people who perfectly complement each other, or the heart’s emptiness when the love is gone.