Street gallery NOWALLS

On October 22, the Art Quarter will host a new exhibition of street art, "City Axis," as part of the eighth layer of the NETSTEN project, which is being implemented by the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art in collaboration with Moskomarkhitektura.

"The NETSTEN project aims to make the language of contemporary art accessible in everyday urban life. Just as animation directors create a stage, architects define the axes of a city and design a new reality within its fabric. Three lines of perspective will become a tool for artistic expression and will connect design and imagination, the city and the viewer," said Sergey Kuznetsov, Chief Architect of Moscow and First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Planning Committee (Moskomarkhitektura), which is part of the Capital's Urban Development Policy and Construction Complex.

The new season is based on the concept of "AXIS". The project is curated by Alexey Partola, an art photographer and publisher, who is the author of the first large-scale study of Russian street art, "Parts of the Walls". For the new exhibition, he invited a group of artists to explore the themes of layers and axes in urban space and create a composition using a system of three perspective lines, similar to architectural visualization or animation frame construction.

"The wall begins to work as a stage – a place where you can simultaneously see both structure, image, and movement, and the city opens up in a new dimension – as a living space built on the intersection of views," said curator Alexei Partola about the concept.

A team of three Russian artists Andrey Adno, Nikita Dusto, Shozy will enter into a deep dialogue with transitions, layering and perspective "axes". The result will be a work with a clear narrative and a strong identity.

Shozy's work is made in the style of "trick" or "trumpery". This style creates illusory images that intersect with real ones, and seem to draw the viewer in. Nikita Dusto's painting interprets a typical multi-apartment panel house, one of the most common architectural objects in Russia and the former Soviet republics. And Andrey Adno's painting will reflect the multilayered perspective of the city, as an embodiment of the diversity of textures. The rhythm is based on the alternation of "frame" and "mass": The grid-like perspective lines will set the pulse, while the three-dimensional shapes and color fields will provide the beats. Along the wall, the color wave will move from cool green to warm and pinkish-purple, creating a sense of forward movement. Three major focal points will structure the drama, with an introduction, a climax, and a resolution.

The first legal street art gallery NETSTEN is located along the railway tracks on the way to two creative clusters – the Winzavod Center for Contemporary Art and Artplay. Several times a year, the gallery features vibrant performances by street artists, engaging the public in artistic experiences.