Matvei Vaisberg loves and deeply appreciates the work of many artists, especially Georges Rouault, Chaïm Soutine, and Francisco Goya. Together with Andrij Mokrousov, an art and literary critic, Matvei Vaisberg developed arrière-garde, an art concept that he incorporates in many of his works. He sees himself as a creator neither of the mimetic nor of the abstract. Similarly, although quite a few of his paintings are centered around biblical themes (Days of Creation, Book of Job, Scenes from Tanakh), he does not think of himself as a religious artist. In 2014, the artist turned his attention to tumultuous events in Kyiv and painted a new series of paintings called “Wall,” dedicated to events on Kyiv’s Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square). The artist himself was not just a witness of these events but also a participant. The cycle “Wall” consists of 28 pictures, each measuring 45 cm by 60 cm, exhibited as a single block, like a wall. The cycle was shown in Kyiv, London, Berlin, New York, Los Angeles, Warsaw, etc. Matvei Vaisberg’s other series (“cycles”) of paintings include “Seven Days” (1998-1999), “The Judaean Desert” (2001), “Anthropic Principle” (2004-2008), “Dancings” (2006-2009), “Scenes from Tanakh” (2006), “Holy Heaven Remains Silent” (2008), “Pur Vital” (2006), “Threetwotwo” (2009), and “Wall” (based on Hans Holbein the Younger’s prints, 2012).