Never Opened Gallery of contemporary art opens Natalya Frolova’s Road Index project exhibition in Factoria Business Park.
On 20 November – 1 December 2018, between 4:12 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. Monday thru Sunday, Natalya Frolova’s Road Index project exhibition will be open to visitors in Factoria Business Park. The exhibition will be supervised by Never Opened Gallery team operating in “roll on” format.
The programme of the exhibition will include a presentation of the new series titled The Silk Road. This is a series of historical footprints left by the silk factory building that has turned into a business cluster today depicted by the contemporary language of art. The pun in the title is not occasional and helps look at time from a new unexpected perspective. Renovation projects create a communicative environment, breathe new life into historic buildings – this is a good example of competent restoration of various eras’ vestiges.
“As I visited the majority of the once great centres of the continent and covered virtually the entire Great Silk Road, I saw the vestiges and fragments of the old times. Some of these places have turned into tourist centres, some of them have fallen into ruin, some of them have lost the struggle with the elements, while others have been subjected to “renovation”, but all of them taken together may be viewed as the places of power whose history is not finished yet”, Natalya Frolova said.
These are the origins of the idea for the work named The Silk Road as a new stage of the Road Index project.
The painter has been speculating on time and communication for quite some time and the Great Silk Road being the greatest link between various peoples and the brightest example of cross-cultural exchange that created cities and centres constitutes one of the key subjects in the painter’s work.
Information for visitors
Access to the exhibition is by invitation only.
To check in, sign up for an Instagram account (the number of invitations is limited): @nogallery_ru
Exhibition hours: 4:12 p.m. and 8:50 p.m. Monday thru Sunday.
About the painter
Natalya Frolova (born in 1984) is a young painter specialising on painting and graphic art and experimenting with new media and materials. In her work, Natalya adheres to the traditions of abstract art and metaphysics drawing inspiration from the symbolism of ancient Oriental and Asian cultures. Her works have already aroused wide interest among contemporary art connoisseurs and collectors from around the world, some of them are kept in private collections in Russia, France, Germany, the UK, Singapore, and China and some of them are presented at private expositions and international exhibitions.
About the project
The series displayed in the Road Index project is devoted to specific periods or events that took place in Moscow over the last century and a half. These events have changed the course of Russian and world history and have left a footprint in the looks of the city and people’s destinies. Each work is a stamp of the old road setting (Khodynka, Krasnaya Presnya, Lubyanka, the White House, Bolotnaya Square) that was a silent eyewitness of or party to various events.