Views and insights exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nataliya Gorza



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VIEWS AND INSIGHTS
Exhibition of paintings and drawings by Nataliya Gorza

Lamutov likovni salon, from 12th April till ......... 2013


Nataliya Gorza (born in 1972) calls herself a painter of »psychological portraits«. The artist says her portraits can be labelled as autobiographical works since the author paints family members, friends, and acquaintances, people who let themselves be portrayed as she sees them. »I am captivated by the power of the view as a complex process happening within as well as outside,« the author says about her works. Human existence is the sum of psychophysical characteristics and emotional states which cannot be separated from physical reality. Everything is written in the landscape of the face: everything on the face is structured and chiselled in line with the individual's way of thinking, as a result of how they think about things, feel them, experience them.
Gorza's works are psychological and artistic reflexions about the sitter, in her own words »it is about an intense individual reaction to another human being's heartbeat«. When speaking of portraits, we also refer to paintings of naked bodies – nudes. Portraits are relatively easy to read, while paintings of naked bodies have become much more difficult to read due to social norms. Painting nudes has always been a bold act. Gorza's nudes are not ordinary studies of anatomy and movement but extremely veristic portraits. The artist conceals rather than reveals nakedness with brutal reality, and in the process completely new insights come to light. The artist was interested in the connection between the human psyche and the illustration of its physical characteristics in painting. She has chosen painting knives rather than brushes to apply paint onto the canvas in order to portray as faithfully as possible the sitter's and her own feelings. The body of the painting has become a relief, the colour forming furrows from restless matter. The painting materials are no longer an aid, but an equal pulsing of matter, as with the French artist Jean Fautrier. Matter painting emphasizes chromaticity of matter and attributes psychological importance to it.

Through naturalism Nataliya Gorza emphasizes the esthetics of the »ugly«, which is the counterpart to realistic and idealistic representation. Her paintings are self-sufficient and sensual material objects, which indirectly reveal faces and bodies with all their truthfulness.



Gorza's portraits and nudes with their style hold a special place in Slovenian painting. Informel did not have many followers in Slovenia, neither did art brut or Slovenian art naive of the early 1960's whose poetics degenerated. Nataliya comes from a completely different background and more than a decade long adaptation to the »adopted« homeland of Slovenia and education at the Ljubljana Academy of Fine Arts and Design could not have changed the emotional charge she brought from her original homeland of Ukraine. Metka Krašovec, although her role model with her esoteric depictions of naked bodies and magical paintings – portraits, is her artistic antipode. With Gorza, what stands out is the mental automatism, the direct link between the subconscious and the creative gesture: matter is rough, the lights not glowing, but veiled or even fading, conveying other meanings.
Milena Zlatar
NATALIYA GORZA
Nataliya was born in 1972 in the Ukraine town of Chernivtsi, where she finished secondary school for fine arts, named after the poet and painter Taras Shevchenko. Life brought her to Slovenia in 2000, first to Jelenov Žleb, later to Ribnica. She continued her education at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Ljubljana. At the Department of Painting she was taught by Metka Krašovec, Zmago Lenardič and Sergej Kapus. She graduated in 2010. She is a member of the Ljubljana Fine Artists Society and the Union of Slovene Fine Arts Associations (ZDSLU).
She lives and works in Ribnica and Ljubljana. She teaches drawing and painting at the Ribnica Fine Arts Centre.
Address: Škrabčev trg 4, 1310 Ribnica

gorzanatalia@yahoo.com
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