Nadia Pronina

I am a professional artist and dedicate all my time to painting. My technique is oil, I prefer it for density, richness and tangibility. Texture and form are two dominant concerns in my figurative paintings.As an artist, I try to bring personalized emotional experience and mystify the viewer, involving him into contemplation game; I like to stay detached and observe, and I feel excitement when others are involved and excited, sometimes revealing things I have not ever thought of.In my artwork I constantly experiment with texture, assigning it a very special role. I like to freely endow my characters with unusual, not inherent textures. I like to play around tangling roles, emphasizing equal values, unity and interplay of all reality elements.When I paint I feel like a spectator of world transformations, watching it flow back and forth from conscious to unconscious. I have been always fascinated with this subtle flow, glow and sliding. I never think about the picture, but always contemplate and play around a life situation in my mind that does not have any relation to me and to what I am working on at the moment. Art can be a matter for philosophy or rhetoric, but I think its impossible to explain it, so I give my spectator a full f...

Education:
Stroganov Art University, Russia
Selected Exhibitions:
1990Young Moldavian Art, Sicily, Italy
1991Collections of Sphinx Gallery, Strasbourg, France
1993The Art Myth 93 Exhibition, Manezh, Moscow
2000National Art Museum of Moldova. Solo exhibition
2002Connoisseurs Gallery. Group Exhibition, Paris
2002 Ferrara International Art Biennale, Italy, First award winner
2002 Sekanina Gallery. Group Exhibition, Ferrara, Italy
2002Forli Art Salon, Italy
2003"Incubi e Sogni". Personal Exhibition, Diapazon Art Gallery, Naples, Italy
2004London Art Fair 2004,