Boris Gurvich

Love for music and collecting biological books illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley influenced the author's graphical sensibility, creative technique, and style. The paintings and graphic sheets presented demonstrate the artist's longing for transcendence, which is frequently amplified by color and subdued hue. The impact of Cezanne’s Cubism under the school of Georges Braque and Pablo Picasso may be seen in works of the 1930s, such as "About" ("Monument") and "Toilet". The artist's prime phase (the 1960s - 1970s) is defined by a slew of abstract works in which Gurvich attempts to transmit the unseen to the observer, to open the fourth dimension, a gateway to another realm. The artist worked diligently in graphic direction and developed the entire series in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Several artworks presented in the gallery introduce the viewer to the exceptional works of the author, and his method of two-handed drawing. The works illustrate the combination of the incompatible through the prism of the "ritual" cover, the breakthrough of cosmic existence.

Artist’s creative heritage should not be attributed to a single stylistic method since the experiments with the synthesis of arts, spiritual perception of the world, and the influence of certain masters of painting and graphics from different eras and countries all contributed to the author's unique, original style.