TURKISH Boris Z.

August 30, 1928 (Voronezh) - November 1, 1997 (Moscow)

painter and graphic artist.

Draw Turkish began very early, worked in a children's club studio, working on their own. In 1944, after the family returned from evacuation in Voronezh became acquainted with the artist AP Vasilyev, have rendered an invaluable influence on youth. In 1946 he enrolled in the Penza Art College named. K. Savitsky. In 1947 he moved to Moscow and transferred to the Moscow Art School in memory 1905 at a theater faculty (teachers - M. Perutsky, M. Khazanov). In 1953-1959 he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute in absentia.

In 1959 in Moscow, the apartment of the composer A. Volkonskogo, held a personal exhibition of the artist. In Soviet times, the innovative work of Boris Turetsky exhibited only in informal, apartment exhibitions. Rare exception - the Turkish part of the "head" in a group exhibition of Moscow artists in the pavilion "Culture House" in VDNH in 1975.

In mid-1970 Turkish because of illness had left an artistic activity, and returned to it only in 1984.

And only in the early 1990's the artist's works were exhibited at the most active major exhibitions devoted to the non-art:

1991 - "Other Art" (The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow);

2001 - "Metamorphoses of paper" (GMII im. Pushkin, Moscow);

2001 - "Abstraction in Russia XX Century" (SRM, St. Petersburg);

2003 - "Moscow - Berlin /Berlin - Moscow. 1950-2000. Modern view »;

2005 - Moscow - Warsaw /Warszawa-Moskwa. 1900-2000 "(State Tretyakov Gallery and the National Center for Contemporary Art, Moscow;

2005 - "Russian Pop Art" (The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow).

personal exhibition held at the Turkish State Tretyakov Gallery in 2003.

develop its abstract themes Turkish began back in 1950. He repeatedly radically changed the direction of his work in different periods, then turning, for example, to figurative painting after abstraction (as happened in the early 1960's), then again back to abstraction. At the same time, Turkish able to create and abstraction, and candid picture of Soviet life. In mid-1970, Boris Turkish one of the first in the Soviet Union began to create flea assemblages - mixed-genre work, which used real objects (eg, cans, shoes, etc.). Along with oil painter began to use his easel paintings unconventional materials (leather, plastic, fur, wood).