Boris Lekar
Architect of light
1932–2010
Painter, architect and monumental artist. Born in Kharkiv, he worked for three decades in Kyiv before settling in Jerusalem in 1990. Across watercolor, tempera and oil, his lifelong subject was light: not light that falls on things, but light that seems to come from within them.
Selected works
For many years I have been tackling a problem of interactions between such categories as spirituality, light, and space.
The works, chapter by chapter
- The Architect’s Eye1954–1963 · 12
- Armenia and Dagestan1970s–1987 · 8
- Objects and Geometry1970s–1989 · 3
- Old Russia and St Petersburg1980s–1989 · 5
- Light from Within1977–1992 · 7
- Antiques1991–1998 · 3
- Israel: Desert and Sea1992–2008 · 9
- Experiments1997–2001 · 11
- Tangle of Underground Jerusalem2000s · 4
- Mountains, Snow and Water1980s–2009 · 9
- Display Windows2004 · 6
- Paris2004–2005 · 9
- Japan2009 · 4