ART CRITICS' CHOICE - Natalija R. Črnčec
3 Feb—29 Feb
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Art Critics’ Choice
Artist: Natalija R. Črnčec, selector: Andreja Rakovec
In cooperation with the Slovenian Association of Art Critics.
Featured work: Untitled, 2011, oil / canvas, 150 x 300 cm
The Infinite Universe of Hidden Horizons
There are certain quests that steer an individual from the external world into his intimate sphere and to the search for answers to the questions that concern human spirituality. The latest works by Natalija R. Črnčec, an artist from Maribor, reflect the archetypal dialogue between the metaphysical and inner human world.
As concerns its form, the visuality of Natalija R. Črnčec centres on the colour of blue and utilizes slight brush strokes to fashion a dynamic rhythm of undulating lines, softly spread over the entire triptych. The artist bases her work on contrasting elements, which she links into a harmonious whole: she fills large formats with small brush strokes, and counterbalances her undulating lines with straight vertical ones, juxtaposing bright blue with darker hues, and toning down the dynamic of undulation by making use of subdued blue shades.
The choice of blue, the artist’s favourite colour, reads like a multilayered interpretation of the creative process and its content. The concentration of the artist while devising the composition, the repetition of stroke movements and the harmonization of colour shades associate the creative process with meditation: the outlining of short lines resembles a mantra, reiterated almost ad infinitum, resulting in a state of inner peace and utter harmony. Both the painting and the viewer become endowed with the serenity that permeates the artistic process: an endless field spreading before us, a sea of silence and a calm haven, where our thoughts find their gentle rest.
The interpretation of Natalija R. Črnčec transposes the symbolic meaning of blue as the colour of contemplation, the metaphysical, from the descriptive level to the empirical one. In providing the viewer with a feeling of having entered the painted surface by means of its colours and lines, the painter turns the viewing into a more intensive experience. The composition overflows the sides of the canvas, while at the same time the darker shades of blue prompt the viewer into directing his gaze into this profundity, which strengthens the impression that the whole composition is spreading into an immeasurable universe and drawing the viewer into its embrace. He finds himself at the heart of vibrating plains, unfolding before him like the mist of metaphysical landscape and at the same time reflecting his inner world: the poetically undulating impulses of his soul. This evokes an association of freedom that serves to give a soothing reassurance of attaining one’s goal, of home-coming – the home that is either in one’s soul or in the extraterrestrial sphere, which is the beginning and the ultimate goal of human existence. The artist thus draws a semantic arc between two worlds: ostensibly a sublime macrocosmic sphere has opened up before us, spreading into immensity into which we all venture fervently, but when contemplating the painting more profoundly this width assumes more intimate accentuation, revealing itself as the reflection of the universe hidden behind the horizons of human soul.
Andreja Rakovec
On the artist
Natalija R. Črnčec was born in 1972 in Maribor. She graduated in 1996 in fine art from the Faculty of Education Maribor. She teaches art at the First Grammar School Maribor and the Second Grammar School Maribor.
Group exhibitions
1992 Exhibition of paintings (Ars sacra, Maribor); 1995 Fine art student exhibition (Ars sacra, Maribor), Ex tempore (Ljutomer), Exhibition of drawings (Nova KBM, Maribor); 1998 Exhibition of paintings (Produkcija Pekarna, Lubadar, Pekarna, Maribor); 1999 Exhibition of paintings (Lubadar, Pekarna, Maribor); 2001 Compilation (Rotovž Exhibition Salon, Maribor); 2006 Self-portrait Today (Art Gallery Maribor); 2010 Ephemeralities/Sobežnosti (Hladilnica, Kulturni center Pekarna, Maribor), A Common Path (Lija Exhibition Ground, Maribor; 2011 Moj-Jom (Lubadar, Pekarna, Maribor).
Solo exhibitions
1997 Blue (Maribor University Library), Earth (produced by Zigota, Hala Gustav, Pekarna, Maribor); 1998 Underwater World (Zigota, Pekarna, Maribor); 1999 Abstract (Zigota, Pekarna, Maribor); 2000 Touch (Avla Youth Exhibition Grounds, Maribor); 2003 Ad hoc! (Kibela, Maribor); 2006 Fluart (Zigota, Pekarna, Maribor); 2009 Colour (Kibela, Maribor), The Fates (Hladilnica, Pekarna Cultural Centre, Maribor); 2010 Colour (Galerija Murska Sobota), Blue.si (Avla Youth Exhibition Grounds, Maribor).
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Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Trg republike 3, Ljubljana (point B)
Foyer I
prosti vstop
Art Critics’ Choice
Artist: Natalija R. Črnčec, selector: Andreja Rakovec
In cooperation with the Slovenian Association of Art Critics.
Featured work: Untitled, 2011, oil / canvas, 150 x 300 cm
The Infinite Universe of Hidden Horizons
There are certain quests that steer an individual from the external world into his intimate sphere and to the search for answers to the questions that concern human spirituality. The latest works by Natalija R. Črnčec, an artist from Maribor, reflect the archetypal dialogue between the metaphysical and inner human world.
As concerns its form, the visuality of Natalija R. Črnčec centres on the colour of blue and utilizes slight brush strokes to fashion a dynamic rhythm of undulating lines, softly spread over the entire triptych. The artist bases her work on contrasting elements, which she links into a harmonious whole: she fills large formats with small brush strokes, and counterbalances her undulating lines with straight vertical ones, juxtaposing bright blue with darker hues, and toning down the dynamic of undulation by making use of subdued blue shades.
The choice of blue, the artist’s favourite colour, reads like a multilayered interpretation of the creative process and its content. The concentration of the artist while devising the composition, the repetition of stroke movements and the harmonization of colour shades associate the creative process with meditation: the outlining of short lines resembles a mantra, reiterated almost ad infinitum, resulting in a state of inner peace and utter harmony. Both the painting and the viewer become endowed with the serenity that permeates the artistic process: an endless field spreading before us, a sea of silence and a calm haven, where our thoughts find their gentle rest.
The interpretation of Natalija R. Črnčec transposes the symbolic meaning of blue as the colour of contemplation, the metaphysical, from the descriptive level to the empirical one. In providing the viewer with a feeling of having entered the painted surface by means of its colours and lines, the painter turns the viewing into a more intensive experience. The composition overflows the sides of the canvas, while at the same time the darker shades of blue prompt the viewer into directing his gaze into this profundity, which strengthens the impression that the whole composition is spreading into an immeasurable universe and drawing the viewer into its embrace. He finds himself at the heart of vibrating plains, unfolding before him like the mist of metaphysical landscape and at the same time reflecting his inner world: the poetically undulating impulses of his soul. This evokes an association of freedom that serves to give a soothing reassurance of attaining one’s goal, of home-coming – the home that is either in one’s soul or in the extraterrestrial sphere, which is the beginning and the ultimate goal of human existence. The artist thus draws a semantic arc between two worlds: ostensibly a sublime macrocosmic sphere has opened up before us, spreading into immensity into which we all venture fervently, but when contemplating the painting more profoundly this width assumes more intimate accentuation, revealing itself as the reflection of the universe hidden behind the horizons of human soul.
Andreja Rakovec
On the artist
Natalija R. Črnčec was born in 1972 in Maribor. She graduated in 1996 in fine art from the Faculty of Education Maribor. She teaches art at the First Grammar School Maribor and the Second Grammar School Maribor.
Group exhibitions
1992 Exhibition of paintings (Ars sacra, Maribor); 1995 Fine art student exhibition (Ars sacra, Maribor), Ex tempore (Ljutomer), Exhibition of drawings (Nova KBM, Maribor); 1998 Exhibition of paintings (Produkcija Pekarna, Lubadar, Pekarna, Maribor); 1999 Exhibition of paintings (Lubadar, Pekarna, Maribor); 2001 Compilation (Rotovž Exhibition Salon, Maribor); 2006 Self-portrait Today (Art Gallery Maribor); 2010 Ephemeralities/Sobežnosti (Hladilnica, Kulturni center Pekarna, Maribor), A Common Path (Lija Exhibition Ground, Maribor; 2011 Moj-Jom (Lubadar, Pekarna, Maribor).
Solo exhibitions
1997 Blue (Maribor University Library), Earth (produced by Zigota, Hala Gustav, Pekarna, Maribor); 1998 Underwater World (Zigota, Pekarna, Maribor); 1999 Abstract (Zigota, Pekarna, Maribor); 2000 Touch (Avla Youth Exhibition Grounds, Maribor); 2003 Ad hoc! (Kibela, Maribor); 2006 Fluart (Zigota, Pekarna, Maribor); 2009 Colour (Kibela, Maribor), The Fates (Hladilnica, Pekarna Cultural Centre, Maribor); 2010 Colour (Galerija Murska Sobota), Blue.si (Avla Youth Exhibition Grounds, Maribor).
www.cd-cc.si
Directions
Address and place of your departure point (point A)
and destination point, Trg republike 3, Ljubljana (point B)