


"I am rushing across the earth's surface in a high—speed vehicle, catching out of the corner of my eye images and artifacts inherent in man from the Stone Age to the present," is how the artist describes in just one phrase the global project to which Boris Koshelokhov, usually called "Bob" in the Western manner, devoted three decades. He used the name of this incredible painting concept — Two Highways — along with the Russian "Two Paths", and even more often "Two Highways": the American highway was for the artist the same as the Siberian highway, although the word itself had receded into the past after Koshelokhov's departure, and now it's more like "highways" around than the "bolshaks".
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