Location: Denmark
Danish artist Natalia Rose challenges the conventional separation between the realm of memory, and the real of experience. Exploring dimensionality through layers of color, her compositions radiate power and command attention as her paintings navigate themes of identity, exoticism and culture and the idea of the stranger.
“My paintings do not depict things which I actually observe, but rather what I recall from the past, and more accurately, what I wish to see." Drawing from historical and cultural imagery, Ms. Rose weaves a map of identity that intermingle Eastern and Western ideals of beauty, as well as mythologies.
Ms. Rose's primary interest is in pictorial phenomena: the illusion of a three-dimensional space, composition, and the optical effects of color. Believing that color stimulates a conversation between tone and texture, between motion and shape, Ms. Rose's rainbow-hued palette dances on the canvas as she transcribes life's events through hue, shape and motion. Passionate color and vibrant texture are parlayed into chimeric, non-figurative compositions which metamorphose into a visual dialogue of dazzling color and line.
Brilliant and emotive, Ms. Rose translates onto canvas with a syncopated beat the magnificence of our world.
www.natalia-rose.dk
mailnatalia.dk@gmail.com
Abstract works 2015-2021
Copenhagen
“Between Black and White, 2017”
The world is multifacetted. Truth is a process. Without nuances of colour and light, human life and the lens through which we experience it, lacks richness and depth. It will stay black and white. The extraction of meaning is exclusively based on invidual interpretation, on our experience, our anxieties, and our hopes.
Calais” is a depiction of human tragedy. I convey my perception of the European refugee crisis to show how dreams of freedom and the yet-to-be-experienced concept of human flourishing collide with reality. In a wider perspective, it speaks to chaos on multiple levels.
Acrylic on linen
It is all about Freedom, Good Life, Vacation and Wonderful Colors
Abstract composition - City lights
Acrylic on linen 120 x 120
My concept is well expressed in the abstract artwork "Uden Titel" made with acrylics on linen. The canvas looks like a tangle of colours and signs, freely drawn on the surface. In the background, a contrast between cold blue and warm yellow prevails, interspersed with black, which creates dynamism and rhythm. The patches of colour, seemingly randomly juxtaposed, instead create interesting shapes inspired by the natural world, such as butterflies and flower petals. Totally and deliberately in contrast to the variegated background, I draw letters according to the oriental alphabet. These are made in a fluid and clear way, bright red and perfectly legible. I prefer colour contrasts in my paintings.
“Calais, 2015”
“Bora Bora, 2018”
“Evening, 2020”
“Uden Titel, 2021”
