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Boris Vansier is a Swiss painter born in Russia in 1928.
His early work reveals a formal preoccupation with the organization on canvas of the two poles of painting represented by abstraction and figuration. It is through the shaping of these two extremes by means of color and line that Boris Vansier's painting reveals in a completely personal way what Kandinsky called "inner necessity".1950 saw him exhibited at the Parisian gallery Ariel.
The themes that punctuate his painting have broadened since his contribution to the lyrical abstraction movement in the late '50s and early '60s (our painting). This period in the painter's career can be seen as a necessary step towards the conquest of new territories, through the abandonment of objective form. Until then, Boris Vansier's painting had been confined to a form that needed to be liberated, and over time he conquered an expressive form that allowed him to escape all the constraints of a nature that was, by definition, tyrannical, and authorized all kinds of freedom. Themes are thus not leitmotifs in the sense of reminiscences that structure the work, but anchors that give it a physicality subject to all quests, all audacities and all variations, and above all to the expression of a totally autonomous pictorial language.
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