Leap
Into Blue
Natasha
Rosenbaum was born in 1960 in the Gorlovka, Donets region which is now
the Ukraine; she grew up there until the age of 16 when she moved to
St. Petersburg.
Natasha started her career as an artist when she was 30 years old. Before
that she followed a completely different path working in the very technical
environment of engineering. In 1983 she graduated from the Leningrad
Polytechnic Institute and subsequently worked as an engineer at Russian
research institute Electrosila for several years. In 199, tired of the
constraints of engineering and longing for a more creative role, she
began attending evening classes at the Ilya Repin Institute of Painting,
Sculpture and Architecture, in St Petersburg
Between 1991 and 1996, Natasha took private tuitions in the studio of
Victor Korobeinkov, at the Gaza Palace of Culture. With Victor as her
mentor, Natasha lived an intense period of art education and personal
self-development, during which she was introduced to the metaphysical
principles of painting, nature and philosophy.
During the year of 1997, she spent a great deal of time studying and
copying the works of great European artists at the Hermitage Museum,
such as Velazquez, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Edgar Degas, which would
later on have an immediate impact on her painting style.
Since 1998, the artist has been exhibiting mainly in Moscow and St.
Petersburg, including at the Central House of the Artist (Moscow) and
the International Federation of Artists (St. Petersburg). In 2003 she
represented Russia at the 4th edition of the Florence Biennale. For
this prestigious and international art event, a 40-page catalogue of
her work was published containing essays by Professor Mikhail German
and composer Yulia Kcharina. Her work is represented in both public
and private collections in Russia, USA, Israel and Canada.
Natasha says of painting “…excites and calms, resolves questions
and instills confidence, activates all levels of the conscious - and
perhaps the subconscious too”.
Natasha lives and works in St Petersburg and will host her first UK
exhibition at The Lightgallery, 5a Porchester Place, London W2 1st –
12th February 2006.
For further press information please contact
Fabio
Adler @ Helen Marsh PR
Tel: 07985 448644 Email: fabio@helenmarshpr.com
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For
the first time in the UK, emerging Russian artist Natasha Rosenbaum
will present her captivating paintings and watercolours in a two week
exhibition at The Lightgallery from Wednesday 1st February (private
view) to Sunday 12th February 2006.
In her forthcoming exhibition entitled Figures, Natasha will display
a fine selection of her latest paintings and watercolours. Known for
atmospheric and fragmental compositions, her oeuvre focus largely on
the human figure, but aside from this she also offers a range of interesting
landscapes and self-portraits.
Most of her recent paintings have a purposefully ‘unfinished’
and ethereal look, as if they were still ‘under construction’.
Rather than precise photographic representations of her subjects, her
paintings tend to take a more fluid form, somewhere between matter and
air and made of apparently quick brushstrokes. The results are at times
dark and dense images, at other times colourful and light, but always
engaging and imaginative.
Natasha Rosenbaum’s work perfectly illustrates the relevance of
contemporary Russian painting and embodies its significant role in the
current European context. Her use of volatile colours suggests many
art historical predecessors, including Velasquez, Degas and Modigliani,
among others, but her works are highly original.
In “Homage to Vermeer” (featured above ) we identify a female
figure floating loose in the picture. Her face is confidently starring
at the viewer; her body however is only a sketch of colours blending
with the background. Paint drips along her face and the viewer can’t
be certain if the image is actually fading or about to assemble before
our eyes. It’s a remarkable picture, which reveals its structure
and texture from inside out.
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