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New York (August 6, 2025) — The Frick Collection is pleased to announce a new site-specific installation by artist Flora Yukhnovich (b. United Kingdom, 1990), in dialogue with François Boucher’s series The Four Seasons, from the museum’s permanent collection. Her mural will cover the walls of the Frick’s Cabinet Gallery, a reimagined space dedicated to the presentation of small-scale displays and contemporary interventions. Yukhnovich will respond to Boucher’s work in her characteristic painting style, a blend of representation and abstraction which draws from art historical traditions while boldly reinterpreting them. Her immersive, energetic works—inspired by the French Rococo, Italian Baroque, and Abstract Expressionist movements—are both modern and timeless, reflecting a rigorous engagement with the legacies of Western painting.
“Flora’s clear admiration for the work of Boucher—an artist who is well represented in our collection—makes her a natural fit for this project. We are excited to have her fill the walls of our new Cabinet Gallery, which was previously home to the Boucher Room, recently reinstalled on the museum’s second floor,” stated Xavier F. Salomon, the Frick’s Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator, who initiated the collaboration.
Commented Yukhnovich, “Painting this mural for the Frick has felt like stepping through one of Boucher’s portals into a world that’s both imagined and eerily familiar. I wanted to create a continuous landscape that blurs the boundaries between past and present—a space where ornamentation, fantasy, and reality collide. It’s been thrilling to explore how the language of the Rococo can speak so powerfully to our own curated, hyper-visual world.”
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