    | | | Created for the support of Petersburg artists (both participation in the exhibitions and entrance are free), in the course of time the Gallery became a rather prestigious spot for organization of exhibitions both of domestic and foreign artists. We believe that in the situation when there are few exhibition spaces in the city and a great scale of creative ideas, aesthetic concepts and artistic practices, the main actual task is to present as many artists as possible independent on genre and technology. Exhibitions in the Borey Gallery are in the non-stop regime. It is a basic principle of the Gallery to support beginning artists and creators (the first exhibition, the first book, the first article). Absence of aesthetic snobbery and restraints in the interests of a special group of artists. Accessibility and openness.
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November 24 - December 5, 2009. Vladlen Gavrilchik. |
«MAKING BEAUTY FOR YOUu»
Painting/graphics
In the gallery halls |  | |  | |  | | | | | | | Due to the 80th jubilee of Vladlen Vasilievich Gavrilchik, Borey decided to arrange an exhibition of his works, taken from various collections.
Vladlen Vasilievich Gavrilchik was born on November 27, 1929 in a caravansary on the road to Termez city of the Uzbek SSR. He was born to a family of the chief of a frontier post on the Soviet-Afghanistan border. He showed craving for art when he started school. In 1943 he was admitted to the Ashkhabad Art School, but after his father’s death in the Kursk battle, his step-mother sent Vladlen to the Tashkent Suvorov Military Academy, from which he graduated in 1947. Later he was a student of Leningrad Frontier Naval Academy, where he gained a diploma as a watch officer and lieutenancy. He served on the ships of the Pacific Ocean frontier fleet. In 1955 he retired and stayed in Leningrad, where he started his work in a construction bureau as a specialist in electro navigators. In 1957 began to attend classes in the art studio of Food Industry Palace of Culture. But by 1960 he was expelled “on account of formalistic manners”.
In 1970 he abandoned his career as an engineer in order to devote himself fully to the beloved art. To keep creative independence, he earned daily bread and paints working as a barge keelman, a conductor in the post office car, a newspaper’s operator, a watchman, a stoker.
In 1976 V.Gavrilchik found his final place of work as a blending station engineer in Grivtsova side-street, where he had been working for 13 years. In 1989 he received a congratulatory address from the administration due to his 60th jubilee, was given a premium of 50 rubles, and retired.
Like many other talents, Vladlen Gavrilchik did not lock himself in the world of painting. He is also known as a brilliant writer and poet.
«As an artist I never attempted to cooperate with official culture. In literature I consider myself to be the follower of Russian futurists, especially of Velimir Khlebnikov. Wrote something about one hundred poems, which make up the following cycles: «Products of the Spirit», «Drinking Affair», «Haberdashery Department», «Pediary». Wrote several plays and prose works».
The artist’s works are in the State Russian Museum, Zimmerli Museum, Norton and Nancy Dodge’s collection, NY, USA, and in private collections. |
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November 17 - 28, 2009. Irina Baybekova. Painting/graphics. |
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November 10 - 21, 2009. Julia Sopina. Painting/Graphics |
«CHINA» (private view on November 5)
Painting/graphics
In the gallery halls |  | |  | | | | | This year I was lucky enough to visit Beijing in January, during New Year holidays. I stayed in the city for 25 days and started to feel myself in China not like a tourist, but to percept it like something dear and familiar. Sauntering, breathing in frosty air, drawing in my small sketchbook, peeping at various sacred animals in Taoist and Lamaist temples, absorbing the variety of red colors, I became happier and happier day by day. I want to share this happiness, which I felt when in China, with you.
In 2003 there was “Njanhua” exhibition of China folk New Year pictures in the Hermitage. I wanted to make a series of my own New Year “Njanhua” and write my own “Tsuhua tsesho” to them, i.e. explanations to New Year pictures, and to show it all in the Borey Art gallery. Really, Borey Art is not worse than the Hermitage! Julia Sopina |
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