Alexander Frolov. The Return of Twenty Artists

Exhibition dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the author.

The Sploshnoff Collection and Alpert Gallery represent Alexander Frolov, a nonconformist artist, one of the most prominent representatives of unofficial Soviet art, a participant in the legendary exhibitions “Twenty Moscow Artists” at Malaya Gruzinskaya.

“The estranged esoteric, wandering in the echoing corridors of Byzantine ubiquity, extracting from the dust of oblivion the remains of Gnostic spiritual ladders - such is Alexander Frolov,… a faithful knight of semantics and mysticism, a philosopher and visionary, master Rembrandt’s “teplisi”, which turned its visual power to the mountain. Hesychism and apophatic theology, neo-Platonism and the Illuminatic thirst for light found in him their adequate protector and poet. Each of his conceptual paintings is philosophical and represents not only an object of contemplation, but a text to read… ”. Otari Kandaurov (from the book "Russia and Christianity", 1991):

The exposition will feature more than 30 paintings, created by the author since the 70s of the last century.

Curator: Alexander Sploshnov

Alexander Sergeevich Frolov was born in 1947 in the city of Nairo, Sakhalin Oblast, in the family of a military man. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural College, in 1968 - the Moscow Architectural Institute. He was awarded the Gold Medal at the competition of All-Union Architectural Institutes. For more than 15 years, the author has devoted architecture, working in the workshops of architects Zholtovsky and Chernyavsky, took part in the design of the Central Exhibition Pavilions of VDNH.

Active participant in the art movement of the Moscow underground. The works are in collections in Germany, Israel, France, Finland, America, Japan, Russia, as well as in the collection of Alexander Sploshnov.