{"id":1179,"date":"2024-05-20T14:19:32","date_gmt":"2024-05-20T12:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/natalia-simonova\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T15:52:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T13:52:44","slug":"natalia-simonova","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/en\/natalia-simonova\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalia \u0160IMONOV\u00c1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;90px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1716047634881{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1085&#8243; img_size=&#8221;large&#8221; onclick=&#8221;link_image&#8221; css_animation=&#8221;fadeIn&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text css_animation=&#8221;fadeInUp&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221;]<\/p>\n<h1>Natalia \u0160IMONOV\u00c1, Slovakia<\/h1>\n<h2>Structures, 2024<\/h2>\n<p>Oil on canvas, 120x100cm<\/p>\n<p>\u2018For a long time, my artistic practice has focused on exploring socialist-era street furniture in Slovakia. Children\u2019s playgrounds, which I subject to the question of destruction, are the mainstay of my inspiration.<br \/>\nI work mainly with rust, but also with rubbing, collage, peeling and oil. At the same time, I use pastels and paint, which in my earlier work were rather minor.<br \/>\nIn my most recent paintings, the expressive drawing revealed is beginning to play an increasingly dominant role. Basic geometric shapes or lines are used as signs. I often vary and multiply these elements within the composition. By transposing the same motif, sometimes on several planes or from different angles, I achieve the effect of endless movement.<br \/>\nThis urban furniture is a feature of the landscapes of the so-called Eastern Bloc countries, but it extends its universality beyond our borders. At once specific and universal to the European environment, each country has its own particular manifestation of this type of furniture, created in the same period and still in use today.<br \/>\nThey are relics that hold up a mirror to society, and at the same time vestiges of a past regime that continue to function in the present.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.works.io\/natalia-simonova\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Website<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=&#8221;.vc_custom_1716111950853{margin-right: 20px !important;margin-left: 20px !important;}&#8221;][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1069&#8243; onclick=&#8221;custom_link&#8221; css=&#8221;&#8221; link=&#8221;https:\/\/www.eurart.eu\/en\/nora-ampova\/&#8221;][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/5&#8243;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1012&#8243; 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