The Creator of a Mythopoetic Universe Boris Grebenshikov is a musician, poet, artist, and the founder of the band Aquarium, and one of the most influential figures in Russian-language culture of the past several decades. Music, however, is only one form of his artistic expression. For many years, Boris Grebenshikov has also been creating paintings. His works emerge from the same inner space as his songs — a world of symbols, myths, archetypes, and images, where intuition takes the place of conventional logic. His paintings invite the viewer to pause, slow down, and enter a state of contemplation. Many of the figures inhabiting his works seem to exist somewhere between dream and reality, bet... more