"In the last years of the XX century the reminiscences about the Renaissance, realism, and medieval symbolism among the crumbled ideological building blocks formed the present day conceptualism and post-modernism. In the contemporary chaos of forms the works of Boris Laurentiev (series "The Cone of Astonishment" and some things from the series "Great Scythia") stand out for their interesting plastic uniqueness - volumetricity of the objects and, at the same time, flatness of representation. From metaphysical still lives to large multi-figured "Battles" - everywhere there is freedom of the masterly use of textures in unity with symbolic images." Pavel Khoroshilov, Vice-Minister of Culture of Russian Federation