Boris Mestchersky
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Boris Mestchersky

Belgium • 1963

Biography

Boris Mestchersky is an atypical artist if there is one. Coming from a family of the first Russian emigration, he spent his childhood between Spain and Wallonia where he joined in particular the excellent Academy of Fine Arts Saint Luc de Liège, having been influenced by a mother too. painter.

In Russian, the act of painting is called "writing", so you write a picture; and no doubt Boris Mestchersky's brush is never as Russian as when he "paints".

Indeed, it is very interesting to see the creative process of the artist, if his brush acts like the real extension of his hand, it moves however as if it were independent, giving birth to a sort of automatic writing, although well and truly inspired.

Writing more than it traces, the brush moves on paper as on canvas following a course whose precision is matched only by its first aspect: light, as if unexpectedly.

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