Natalia Rose

Natalia Rose (born 1953) creates paintings, drawings and conceptual artworks. Rose absorbs the tradition of remembrance art into a daily practice through the use of abstractions. A key element of her work is the absence of clear cut references.

By challenging the conventional separation between the realm of memory and the realm of experience her work generates diverse meanings. Associations and interpretations collide. Space becomes time and language becomes image.

Her work radiates latent power and force, maybe even violence. Disconcerting beauty emerges. Playing with sign processes she seduces the viewer to enter a world of ongoing equilibrium and an interval that articulates the stream of daily events. Moments are depicted to punctuate the human drama in order to clarify our existence and to find poetic meaning in everyday life.

Colorful lines and long lines of text populate Natalia Rose's canvases. She explores identity and exoticization of the stranger. The Russian-born artist, who is living and working in Denmark, draws from historical and cultural imagery to create a visual map of identity—an idenity that mingles Eastern and Western beauty ideals and mythologies. Tensions between the varying cultures emerge in the ...

Master of Arts

21.May - 24.May 2021 Creative Mind Øksnehallen Copenhagen Denmark
9.-10.May 2022 Øksnehallen Copenhagen Denmark