Publication details
Natalie Perkof / Blíženci
| Title in English | Natalie Perkof / Gemini |
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| Year of publication | 2023 |
| Type | Exposition |
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| Description | Natalie Perkof is an artist with Czech-Ghanaian roots, whose work deals primarily with issues of femininity, dominance, sexuality, spirituality and the relationship between man and nature. The exhibition at the White & Weiss Gallery will present her latest paintings that relate to the theme of human identity, the human soul with its conscious and unconscious layers. The story of Gemini or the divine twins, spanning many cultures and centuries, Natalie Perkof associates with the idea of regaining wholeness and balance, in which she sees an individual source of inner strength. She sees the reconciliation of the often contradictory components of the personality as the way to the birth of a self-conscious and free being who does not let himself be bound by any norms or conventions and draws strength from within. Such a being may take the form of a modern goddess, combining the innocence and purity of the Christian Mother with the unbridled sensuality of the Hindu goddess Kali, who, among other things, has become one of the icons of the feminist movement. Loose inspirations from mythology, mysticism and Eastern spirituality are syncretically combined with reflections that reach into the realm of feminism and depth psychology. The power and poetic nature of the artist's statement is underlined by the formal concept of the paintings, based on reductive forms of figures that seem to float in an indeterminate space-time of monochromatic colour surfaces. |