The best place to work is at home in Ukraine. No matter how beautiful and tempting the world around you is, after a short aesthetic and creative euphoria abroad, filled with impressions, you fly back home to express everything you have accumulated, seen and experienced emotionally. For me, Ukraine is a miracle of miracles. There is nothing like it in the world: fertile land, people, customs, traditions, folklore, folk art, songs, fairy tales, legends, and ancient mounds with their inexhaustible messages to us... This is the lifeblood of my work. And that makes me feel somehow selfishly happy that I was born here on this earth... Serving art is something like a scale "either material or spiritual". And no material dividends can compensate for that rare moment when you realise that what you create raises you one step further, somewhere in the realm of the perfection of the Spirit...

Anatolii Furlet was born in the village of Cheponosy, Khotyn district, Chernivtsi region, on 13 February 1958. In 1983, he graduated from the Faculty of Art and Graphic Arts of the Odesa State Pedagogical Institute named after Ushynskyi. He worked as a director of the art school in Horodok, Khmelnytskyi region, and since 2000 he lived in Bucha, Kyiv region, where he organised the art school №4 on the basis of the school №4, where he organised special art classes with his own curriculum on the basis of school No. 4... The artist's creative and exhibition activity began after graduation... Anatolii Borysovych is a participant in regional, national and international (USA, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Egypt, Lebanon, France, Slovakia, Romania, Italy) exhibitions, art projects and plein airs.

Anatolii Borysovych, a master of sacred and symbolic painting, is a member of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, a painter, graphic artist, teacher, laureate of the Regional Literary and Art Prize named after O. Kobylianska, the All-Ukrainian Prize named after M. Derehus. Derehus in painting, he was awarded the anniversary award of the Chernivtsi Regional State Administration - the medal "100 Years of the Bukovyna Veche", the gratitude of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine and the Chairman of the Chernivtsi Regional Council, the honorary award (medal) of the Chernivtsi Regional Council "Grateful Bukovyna".

The artist's works are kept in the National Art Museum of Ukraine in Kyiv, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Odesa, the Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum, the Chernivtsi Regional Art Museum, the Museum of the History of Religion in Lviv, the Art Museum in Kamianske, Dnipro region. Kamianske, Dnipro region, in the funds of the Lviv Palace of Arts, in the National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya, in the collections of private galleries in Ukraine and abroad, in the collection of Temistokl and Orysia Virst, France, etc.

Personal exhibitions:

1993 - Slavutych Gallery, Kyiv
1994 - gallery "Lavra", Kyiv
1996 - Boston, Harvard University, USA
2002 - National Museum of Ukrainian Art, Kyiv
2003 - gallery "Plast-Art", Chernihiv
2005 - Palace of Arts, Lviv
2008 - Khmelnytskyi Regional Art Museum, Khmelnytskyi
2009 - Museum of Contemporary Art, Odesa
2011 - Vernissage Culture Centre, Chernivtsi
2012 - gallery "SweetArt", Chernivtsi
2016 - project "Stone Tomb. Reincarnation", Kamianske, Dnipro region
2017 - Museum of the History of Religion, Lviv
2018 - Art Museum named after. A.I. Kuindzhi Art Museum, Mariupol
2018 - exhibition hall of the National Union of Artists of Ukraine, Ivano-Frankivsk
2018 - White World Gallery, Kyiv
2018 - gallery "ABC-art", Kyiv
2018 - gallery "Artist", Kyiv
2019 - Chernivtsi Regional Art Museum, Chernivtsi
2021 - Chernivtsi Regional Art Museum, Chernivtsi
2022 - ABC Art Gallery, Kyiv
2023 - Green Sofa Gallery, Lviv
2023 - National Museum of Folk Art of Hutsulshchyna and Pokuttya, Kolomyia
2023 - National Historical and Cultural Reserve "Kamianets", Kamianets-Podilskyi

"In an age when informativeness is replaced by informationalism, and the noise of neologisms obscures the true meanings, the world, preoccupied with flirting with contexts and topical issues of our time, constantly produces replicas of replicas. This also applies to art, where the quiet and self-concentrated deep is forced to give way to the superficial, bright, eloquent, annoying... Anatolii Furlet develops the traditions of deep, iconic art, which is based on the principles of our national fine arts, in particular the vector of the mythopoetic art school, which was formed in the early 1990s in Ukraine. Working as a painter and graphic artist, teaching his students, the artist refers to archaic figurative and sign systems, to the symbolism of ancient civilisations that left their mark on the Ukrainian territory. The artist's world is filled with lyrical and philosophical reflections, petroglyphic layers appear texturally from the hint of muted colours. Faces and figures frozen in a timeless space are full of mystery. This is how the Action is created, in the centre of which is Light." ("ABC-art" Gallery, Kyiv)

"Furlet's "surface of being" is a deep restoration of the national spirit, history, plastic and symbolic forms of the people's existence." (Ukrainian philosopher, Doctor of Philosophy Volodymyr Lychkovakh)