EFFECTIVE CONTEMPLATIVE
One of the well-known landscape painters nowadays in Petersburg, is an artist Boris Borsch who was born in Mogilev in 1948. If St. Petersburg was a window to Europe, White Russia is a gate. There Poland and Lithuania left the European spirit and again elapses from Europe Jewish scattering, settling in "townships", gave a unique flavor edge.
After the war, the city remains a little "history", but the surviving corners, provincial baroque monuments, picturesque bend of the Dnieper were the basis of the aesthetic education of the future artist. Already living in Leningrad, every year he spent the summer at home and brought out a lot of work. We have a collection of touching pattern 90s, where his mother is an artist goes through the bow.Face is almost not visible, but the posture surprisingly lively and quick and accurate strokes fill the job movement, conveys the excitement of the author. He began to paint since childhood, and painting is accompanied by his passion for life. Then he began to study painting, decided to devote himself to art. In formal systems of those years did not fit his aspirations. Becoming an artist yourself going through trial and error, but always with a sincere dedication. He touched destinations that unlike imposed socialist realism, could enable better express themselves. To show such works at official exhibitions in Mogilev was impossible, as well as in the capitals, but at least there was an opportunity to communicate with the audience at exhibitions of unofficial art. And in 1982, Boris appears to be in Leningrad. Here at this time formed an organization of independent artists, managed to win the right to exhibit relatively regularly.
Began with a significant "gazanevskih" exhibitions 1974-1975,. Their huge success has stunned not only the audience but the authorities. Reaction followed. However, new steel intensively flow forces. Merging the two waves of the Leningrad underground led to the formation of the Experimental Fine Arts is TEII. The first exhibition was held just in 1982, and the second in 1983 was already a new member of the Association of artist Boris Borsch. His work in those years were certainly noticeable, but remember, they have not touched me . Now, from the standpoint of the present, knowing and loving his work picturesque recent years, I think that in the early studies did not have the disarming directness, which is now firmly associated with his name. Once in a rich artistic environment, having become acquainted with many areas of unofficial art in Leningrad, he felt a new perspective to realize their talent. Continued experiments in avant-garde styles, but by the end of the eighties, the artist turns to embody experiences directly visible. Henceforth, the main component of his work becomes open-air and portraits from life. But the former stage of creativity, contemporary touch to the surveys, the liberation from the "display" in general, led to emancipation in "mapping" of nature in the new stage of creativity. One can find in the Leningrad art of the time a lot closer. This artists Arefevsky circle, especially V. Shagin, S. Schwartz and V. Gromov, artists group "11", especially G. Egoshin, Z. Arshakuni and adjacent I. Sorkin and Y. Pavlov, artists group "8" especially A. Zaslavsky, which had become very friendly Boris A. Zinstein, and, of course, formed in the mid – 80s "Mitki". Were probably mutual, but most importantly – there was an atmosphere of sincere aspiration to create free picturesque response to a visible image. Maintain a clean jet picturesque Leningrad culture of the 20-30 years. The work of Boris Borsch – it is really alive Scriptures. Every touch of the brush to the canvas or paper filled the lead to psychic energy, no one indifferent. This energy is light, poetic, despite, sometimes shaded color (and was a period). The speed and apparent "negligence" performance does not lead to the experience easy Sketchy, on the contrary, built monumental work, felt they concentrated tension.
A swabs, where "precision exactly tipsy" just create poetic works. Attracts landscape artist, especially St. Petersburg. And both architectural masterpiece and unpresentable backyard for him equivalent scenic motive. There are cycles (not well suited to the word of his impulsive nature), written with one point. It is especially noticeable as the author builds his "color symphonies." Variations rather diverse color solutions on the same topic, where constructive fortress color spots all united. Please see color chord sounding together, acting "musical", but it's still and the landscape, there's a space, and mood of the place, Petersburg mood. All this close to the heart of the artist, all closely at his paintings. So there is another St. Petersburg – St. Petersburg artist Boris Borsch. Always interested him, and people. It could be random motives and characters, but, basically, he painted portraits of friends and acquaintances. Main model, he immediately grasps, but then in his deforms with all its inherent scenic voltage, making monumental image, expressive. On the background of puzzling splashes in modern art, painting, seemingly came out of the realm of "relevance." Anatoly Zaslavsky even invented for their like-minded friends a funny name "Hopeless painters." But the joy of drawing for people is eternal, and good painting, I think, will always be relevant.
