Milena Neubert
Milena Neubert
Leipzig, Germany
About Milena Neubert
Year of birth /place: 1973 Yambol, Bulgaria. I am an artist who is genuinely interested in and working in graphics, drawings, and paintings. For some additional info, please, visit my web page which is as follows: http://www.art-milena.com or/and http://www.milenapopova.com. ___________________________________ Illuminated landscape. The drawings of Milena Popova Heidi Stecker, December 2010 "You see a bay, shallow water with small reefs, boulders and debris, piles of stones - grey, reddish, sulphurous yellow, green - rising up out of the water. Behind this the coastline, washed into a curve by the rain, or brooks, or a storm tide, ripped apart by a ravine at one point, crashing down at another, steeply, towards a shallow sandy shore, the slopes still high, perhaps safe enough". The German author Johannes Bobrowski moved through all kinds of spaces, both real and imaginary, from east to west and from west to east. Bobrowski, who was born in Tilsit in 1917 and died in Berlin in 1965, described a European landscape in his text "žBetrachtung eines Bildes" (Contemplation of a Picture) written in 1965 (in: Erzählungen (Short Stories), Reclam Leipzig, 1986, p 119). This reminds us of Milena Popova's drawings. They lead us from outer landscapes to inner spheres, and from there to views of bodies and of feelings. Milena Popova's sensitive drawings appear calligraphic, poetic, delicate. Starting out from the human form, for example a view of a back, she works her way along structures that are sometimes unwieldy, to create complicated formations reminiscent of landscapes, which then - returning to the initial starting point of the drawing -construct human forms. The figures appear elusive, transient. They are symbols, an expression of sensory impressions. Densely drawn strokes stand in contrast to the graceful lines; they are crumpled up into clusters, forced into meaty clumps, not without moments of aggression. They bear reference to Francis Bacon; they are no longer harmless, but cryptic and almost threatening. Popova compresses emotional events, so that they develop their own visual graphic language on the page. In an economical and highly concentrated way, the artist sounds the depths of various possibilities, a river of gestures arises, which is tested for its durability and steadfastness on the paper surface, linking together terms such as inspiration, gracefulness, emotion, beauty, like a bridge. Sometimes Popova places them in a box-shaped form and fixes them in a kind of viewing frame. The important thing here is the process of movement. The artist often works in sequences of drawings, sometimes in series; here she groups pictures with similar motifs together, allows them to build on from one another, so that whole tableaus emerge. In a lyrical, sometimes cool way, linear structures are encircled. Areas of density allow delicate layered structures to arise. Popova's drawings give themselves up to the physical movement of drawing and the flow of the lines. Almost casually, fleetingly, spaces and the hints of human forms are set into place, from which mysterious beings and disintegrating creatures emerge. Something that forms the basis of all art also applies to the work of Milena Popova: Internal processes are made externally visible. In this way the artist gives others the opportunity to take part in these psychological events in a sensual way, we go back to the expressiveness of pure material: Art is more than that which can be expressed in verbal language. Günter Kunert, born in 1929 in Berlin, wrote: "When the thick layers of cloud slowly open, a merciful thermal upwind breaks open the gray layers way up there, the whirling haze becomes thinner and thinner until it can barely conceal the blue of the heavens and, suddenly, the first ray of sunlight for a long time breaks through, and the landscape is illuminated as though it were awakened from an enchanted fairytale sleep. A cool breeze tells the trees, which rustle their applause to hear the news that the sorcerer or whatever is being denounced as the evil principal has been deprived of power or rather pursued by the light. This moment - which lasts until the veils slowly begin to move into layers over one another again - gives us an idea of how the world could be" (in: Kurze Beschreibung eines Momentes der Ewigkeit (Short Description of a Moment of Eternity). Reclam Leipzig, 1980, Bucher Nachträge: Wetter (Postscripts: Weather), p 132). The play of shadow and light in Milena Popova's drawings also give us a glimpse of how it could be, or even of how it is. ___________________________________ Aufleuchtende Gegend. Zu Zeichnungen von Milena Popova Heidi Stecker, Dezember 2010 "žMan sieht eine Bucht, ein Flachwasser mit kleinen Riffen, Geröll und Geschiebe, Steinhaufen, die sich - grau, rötlich http://www.milenaneubert.com, http://www.milenapopova.com, http://www.art-milena.com ,
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TABULAR PERSONAL RECORD Persnal Data: First name / surname: Milena Petrova Popova, E-Mail: mail@art-milena.com, Website: www.art-milena.com and www.milenaneubert.com, Year of birth / place 1973 / Yambol, BulgariaPost-graduate studies:2004-2005 Postgraduated study at the University of Burg Giebichenstein for Art and Design,Halle/Saale, Germany.Course Painting/Graphic Arts, Specialization Grafic Arts (Prof. Frank Ruddigkeit)1999-2004 Postgraduated study at the University of Burg Giebichenstein for Art and Design,Halle/Saale, Germany.Field Painting/Graphic Arts, Specialization Textile (Prof. Ulrich Reimkasten).Graduate Studies1992-1997 National Academy of Arts N. Pavlovitch, Sofia, Bulgaria.Field Textile (Doz. Balev). Obtained degree Magister of Arts and Painter withPedagogical Certificate.Education course:1987-1992 Professional High School for Applied Arts, Sofia, Bulgaria.Field Artistic handling of clothes and fabric. Obtained qualification degree Painterand Textile Designer.1980-1987 Primary school Ivan Thenev, Yambol, Bulgaria.Jobs:2005-2006 Artist and Graphicdesigner in DIGITAL SYSTEMS GmbH, Leipzig, Germany.1997-1999 Activity in print preparation and as a designer in Publishing and Advertising House Nia,Sofia, Bulgaria.Membership of Organization:1998 Member of Union of Bulgarian artists affiliated to the international association of artIAA (Unesco).2007 Member of Bund Bildender Knstler Leipzig e.V. (BBKL) affiliated to theBundesverband Bildender Knstlerinnen und Knstler (BBK) in Germany.Awards and prizes:2005 Sponsor-award of Graphic of savings bank Nordhausen in 4th. Nordhuser award ofIlseraut-Glock-Grabe-fondation, Germany.Participation in group exhibitions (selection):2007 art colony Bitola, plenar painting, Bitola, R. Macedonia; Symposium for Lithography in Leipzig, Germany.2005 Graphic in 1th Merkunst exhibition Junge Kunst (young arts) in drawing room of garden palaces,Merseburg, Germany; Graphic in 5th Liege International Biennal of Entching, Musee dArt moderne et dArtcontemporain de la Ville de Liege, Belgium; Graphic in 4th Nordhuser Ilseraut-Glock-Grabe- fondation inMeyenburg museums Nordhausen, Germany; Graphic in the grand exhibitions of art Halle/Saale, Germany.2003 Graphic in 3. Nordhuser Ilseraut-Glock-Grabe for Graphic, Meyenburg-Museum-Nordhausen, Germany.2002 Graphic in the Internationale Senefelder-Foundation Klingspormuseum , Offenbach am Main, Germany.2000 painting in the university for applied sciences, Harz; Wernigerode, Germany; Exhibition rundgang in theWittekindbad, Halle/Saale, Germany.1998 National exhibition picture and small plastics in the gallery Schipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria.1997 new names in the gallery Schipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria; National exhibition spring salon in the gallerySchipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria; Painting at the 13. International Biennale of humor and satire in the arts,Gabrovo, Bulgaria.1996 Bulgarian motives in the Bulgarian cultural center, Vienna, Austria; International Biennale of painting inthe Gallery Schipka 6, Sofia, Bulgaria.Personal exhibitions (selection):2004 song of humans body nude drawing in the building of students company Halle/Saale, Germany;Temperament drawing in india ink and painting, in the students company Dessau, Germany.2005 visions drawing and graphic in the students company Halle/Saale, Germany.,