In the sumptuous setting of the Maison Caillebotte, a stone's throw from the exhibition devoted to Evi Keller, the intimate, majestic works of Boris Zaborov, a rare artist of Belarusian origin, impose a sublime, luminous grayness of humanity on the Ferme Ornée. His life of art, wandering and powerful encounters impresses... Of his early youth (he was born in Minsk in 1935), he remembers above all his father's easel, a painter of large canvases, and the smell of his studio. On June 22, 1941, German planes bombed his hometown, his house burned down, and from then on, the word “war” occupied his entire life, if not all his work. Around him, “it was much easier to perish than to survive”, and the most melancholy opacity haunts almost all his paintings...

Christian Noorbergen

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