Joël Circhansky

Joël Circhansky Painter Of Slavic origin, Joël Circhansky was born on October 15, 1956 in Langon, Gironde. He graduated from the School of Interior Architecture in Bordeaux. His taste for travel and change of scenery led him to practice his profession "around the world" for 15 years.

At the same time, he painted as an amateur: a self-taught painter, he used the strong colors of the tropics and his knowledge of architecture with rigorous perspectives to represent his vision of the world. Little by little his passion will lead him to the research of matter, of texture...

In 1990, he moved to the USA, in Florida and from 1995, he will be present in several large exhibitions between New York and Florida:
- Hall of Frame -DGP Art Palm Beach, FL.
- Kenneth Raymond Gallery, Boca Raton, FL.
- Gallery Alexi-Chelsea, New-York, NY.

In September 2000, he decided to "return to his roots" and returned to France and resided in the Basque Country. The return, the joy of rediscovering the landscapes, the scents and colors of the seasons in Europe, will not be without influence on his creations... Constant research of materials, tints and finally patinas.

In 2001, he created Prismes d'Art, a company that organizes art shows and exhibitions in Aquitaine. He exhibits individually in galleries and plastic art shows.

Before leaving France for Martigny in Switzerland in 2005, he exhibited again at the Galerie des Arènes in Bayonne, and was the Guest of Honor at the 10th Salon des Métiers d'Art des Armées du Sud-Ouest in St Jean-de-Luz, under the patronage of Mrs Michèle Alliot-Marie, Minister of Defense.
Installed in Martigny - Valais Switzerland, his activities as an Architect and the mandates entrusted to him will not allow him to paint anymore. Today, freed from his professional obligations, he resumes his research of materials and expression which leads him to "abstraction, to the feeling of the essential..." he says.
Atypical painter, Joel Circhansky has for a time, replaced brushes and brushes by the bow borrowed from the cello, then the knife, more in line with his research of rendering, knife that he now uses to offer you some of his latest works "Series 001 - Shards".