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Artist Statement:
Human behaviour awakens the
curiosity of psychiatrists,
sociologists, philosophers and
artists amongst other
intellectuals. My art practice
explores the way the
environment affects human
behaviour; the way in which
the self can be shaped,
re-shaped and manipulated
according to the environment
and situations humans may be
faced with.
I ...
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Artist Exhibitions:
NATALIA KEMPOWSKY
Born January 21st, 1980.
Bucaramanga, Colombia.
Lives and works in London, UK.
2006 Master in Fine Art
(MAFA), Chelsea College of
Fine Art and Design. London,
UK.
1998 – 2003 Master of Arts.
Major: Fine Arts. Los Andes
University. Bogotá, Colombia.
1997 – 1998 Architecture. Los
Andes University. Bogotá,
Colombia.
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Artist Galleries:
AGORA GALLERY. 530 West 25th
Street in the Center of the
art district in Chelsea. New
York 10001, USA....
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Reviews for Natalia Kempowsky:
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"Natalia Kempowsky's boldly expressionistic paintings mirror her fascination with an inner compulsion to explore "the multiple possibilities of what's underneath appearances and socially imposed prototypes." Seeking to understand and visually articulate what cannot be tangibly perceived, Kempowsky explores the elusive realm of human thought and aspiration, fears and desires. Her abstract compositions and emphatic style of mark-making (often painted directly from the tube onto the canvas and spread with her fingers) delineate a purely emotional expression of individual thought and experience, defining the complexity of the human instinct and intellect through color, movement and impetuous forms. The wavering, dripping, and darting line quality in Kempowsky's thickly textured works augment these highly energetic compositions to create images that are never static. Through an alternatively intricate and brash layering of line work and indeterminate shapes, Kempowsky translates into color and kinetics those aspects of the individual that so often go unseen - the ideas and inclinations, sentiments and peculiarities that are not easily shared with society." AGORA GALLERY, NY
PRESS RELEASE
Size matters
Natalia Kempowsky
Size matters?, a solo exhibition by Colombian artist Natalia Kempowsky taking place at María Elena Kravetz Art Gallery – Córdoba – between the 2nd and 30th of July, 2008 deals with contemporary issues of travelling an migration. At the outset, Kempowsky ponders on the amount of freedom individuals possess when planning to see and know the world. Realising that the freedom to travel and explore is waned or increased depending on the traveller’s nationality and the amount of countries that demand that no visa is acquired, the artist creates an imaginary rout map that explores the relationship between the freedom to travel, the size of the land that can be covered, dynamics of international migration and cultural identity.
Naturally, the personal history of the artist counts a great deal. Having been born in Colombia of German ancestors and having lived in London, her identity is constructed through several routes of migration where even the discovery of America by Columbus plays a role. Kempowsky first researches the nature of treaties between countries that would allow travellers to move through borders freely, and then creates spheres that metaphorically indicate the size of the knowable world for a Colombian, a Brazilian, an Argentine, a Chilean or a citizen of the United States, among other countries. A second research is conducted, this time in the nature of the cultural identity of each of these nations, arriving to the conclusion that those with more open boundaries acquire cultural richness by way of what they inherit from their immigrants, while those countries whose liberty of mobility is lesser strive in holding their cultural roots close and cherish and pass them on through several generations.
Kempowsky’s work implicitly reveals dynamics of cultural, political and ideological domination, while the very idea of cultural identity is questioned. Playing with our notions of what is local and what is global, her work evidences the elements that construct the cultural identity of each of these nations, explores monumentality and through collage and a heartfelt exercise in rich drawing makes spectators wonder about their own cultural identities.
Paula Silva
Independent Art Critic and Curator
Bogotá, Colombia
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