Exhibition of Vera Zanegina "Myths of Nonwoven Forest"

November 15 at 15:00 in the Information, educational and exhibition center of the Kaluga Museum of Fine Arts (Lenin St., 103, 2nd floor) will open the exhibition of Vera Zaneginoy "Myths of non-woven forest."

Moscow artist Vera Zanegin for the first time presents works made in the non-woven textile art-protis in Kaluga.

The artist’s works represent a new direction in decorative art - non-woven industrial textiles enable the author to create works of art in a completely new way.

The exhibition presents unusual textile panels consisting of synthetic colored fibers using needle-punched technology and the author’s technique of applying thermal patterns to fabrics, as well as a series of graphic sheets. The author sees his main task as attracting the attention of the viewer to environmental issues. All textile work is made of polyester fibers - the product of the processing of plastic bottles. Recycling polyester plastics (PET) is the way to waste a tremendous amount of resources and protect the environment. The author seeks through decorative art to raise the issues of preserving the ecology of the environment.

Creating a non-woven textile in the form of a panel is a laborious and complex process. A soft-touch material in which the pattern is created using mechanical bonding: tangling and interlacing synthetic fibers with 40,000 needles or melting the pattern thermally, becomes a space for imagination. Natural motifs, plants, animal images are endowed with mythological and fabulous mystery.

Each piece is individual and unique. Restrained in color, monochrome, linearly plastic and contrasting compositions make the viewer think, reason, read subtexts, immerse themselves in the space of the “non-woven forest”.

The exhibition Myths of the Nonwoven Forest is held as part of the author’s art project Other Textiles.

Vera Zanegin was born in 1979 in Moscow. Graduated from Moscow State Art and Industrial University. S. G. Stroganova, majoring in Art Textiles. In 1998, she won the international art competition and was sent for an internship at the Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau (Germany).

Member of the international project for the design of the exhibition complex of the Courtyard of Lucas Cranach in Lutherstadt Wittenberg.

In 2008 graduated from graduate school, art history department. Member of the Association of Decorative Artists of the Moscow Union of Artists, member of the Union of Designers of Moscow. Laureate of international competitions and festivals, a regular participant in professional exhibitions.

The works of Vera Zaneginoy are in private collections in Russia and abroad.

For visitors, the exhibition will run until December 15, 2019.

Museum opening hours: daily from 10:00 to 18:00, except Mondays, Saturdays from 11:00 to 19:00. The last Friday of the month is a sanitary day.