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Natasha Andonova-drawings

biography - Natasha Andonova
Born 1974 in Skopje. Graduated 1999 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje - painting department with fashion design, in the class of professor Dushan Perchinkov. DLUM member since 2002

Poetry of the charcoal drawing


The drawing as a beginning... Because of the technical simplicity the artist usually first shapes the artistic sensations in the drawing, and studies the composition or the details of the work which latter will be done in another "more complex" technique. Usually, the biggest number of drawings has a meaning of study, sketch or note. But that is not the case in Natasha Andova's drawings. She puts these definitions in the background, although sometimes elements of a draft are included, her drawings are imagined as definite artistic realizations.
In the first solo exhibition Natasha Andonova presents only figuration. She uses long time known motifs: still life, self-portrait, nude and landscape. Drawings are made in a period of several years and usually are made in small dimensions, or in explicit big dimensions. She creates the drawing with fast action in a form of a sketch where certain parts of the body or the face are emphasized - expression mostly represented in female nudes. In some of the 'love' nudes impressionistic reminiscences are presented and the drawings are "calm", while in other the line becomes excited and creates dynamic with emphasized eroticism. Contrary to those, self-portraits with different face expressions, where the graphic modulation is used to shape the volume, refers to black and white photo-realistic appearance. Still lives are various: from strictly classical compositions in which the relation between represented objects and space matters, to ultimately dynamical images of .... which also initiate the attempt to penetrate in the sphere of abstraction. Stylization and allure of the poetic expression are not avoided, and the academism, too.
All of the drawings are made in charcoal on paper technique. The choice of the charcoal because of its sensibility brings Natasha Andonova at the beginning of the artistic techniques erudition. The decision to explore, again and again, only the possibilities of the charcoal and black and white contrasts is in a certain way attitude against the more frequently negligence of this technique in contemporary trends.