In the modern environment, the Beach is a unique place located on the border of the land and water where human beings break their social bonds.
If a painter systematically and for a long period of time works on one after another picture of a beach or about a beach, it means that this painter has a philosophic grain. The painter sets himself a task: to learn what is the original and inherent feature of a human being and what similarities we have with the Dame Nature.
Human figures in Boris Inkeles' works are so generalized that you can easily recognize the universal body constructions that are well known from the works of the Old Masters. There are no personalities, no social roles, rather "anthropologic formulas".
The painter does not care decisively about the details. As it is said in a book by Kurt Vonnegut, the grand and skeptical connoisseur of people, "We all live on the Planet Earth and are cooked in the same pot." In a way the concept of this "pot" is very close to Boris Inkeles. Boris, the eternal observer of people from the other side of culture and society, creates these pictures to detect signs of "primary biomass."
He is interested in the space on the edge of the three conventionally designated nature elements: the sky with the light flowing out, the water in the background, and the land where the slugs of people walk and run, pieces of biomass, and modeling raw substances in the hands of the Creator.
The painter reflects over the process of the World Creation. He tries to imagine what the Supreme Being would do, conceiving the creation of the theater of the human race amidst the triad of elements, the race he created on the sixth day of the World Creation.
He is also well aware of the ways how to press primeval energy into the leaden pose of pillar-like statues. He can instill his clay figures with flexibility and looseness and even come to some sort of dissoluteness of body masses which foresee either Hellenism or Barocco.
With a masked smile he quotes Botticelli, Nicolas Poussin, and Edgar Degas. His Divine angulous figures inspired by avant-garde artists refer us to the early works of Picasso and expressionist painters.
All cultural and social characteristics are secondary and problematic. Only the primary nature is essential. By erasing all the haphazard traits we can get eternal formulas.
Probably, Boris Inkeles also believes that skills and craft, artistic professionalism and spark of inspiration are God-given. We do not know whether the creative power comes from the sun, vivifying water, grass, sand, or warm bodies before they are transformed into the social, harnessed, and saddled being.Painters still believe in Great Fables. Seeing their pictures, you begin to believe in them, too.
The fact that his anthropological explorations are oriented on the search of the root in genealogical terms is also quite evident.
Artist and thinker Boris Inkeles»
(YAKIMOVICH A. art critic)
The fact that the Painter is initially and essentially anthropologic in his constructive methods is beyond exception.
WE BOIL IN THE SAME CAULDRON.
(YAKIMOVICH A. art critic)