The artist shows her powerful natural and plant-like pictorial worlds. And while nature slowly awakens outside in the still mostly cloudy, cold months of March and April, we can immerse ourselves in her exciting and often enigmatic as well as colorful natural worlds. In doing so, we open up our very own experience of nature and connect various associations with her pictures.
Tatiana Urban draws inspiration from real nature as well as from media and virtual manifestations of nature and landscape. Urban explores the tension between man and nature as well as the dualism of alienation from nature and longing for nature and is particularly fascinated by the fragile, imperfect nature that surrounds us, such as the artificially created nature in cities, forgotten plants and worn green spaces.
She addresses the proximity of “beauty and decay”, the play with ambiguity and the combination of the artificial with the organic and says of her pictures: “My pictorial worlds, which often oscillate between abstraction and figuration, have a picture of nature in common, in which upheaval becomes a permanent state. Nature dissolves into structures, becomes a shadow image, loses itself in emptiness or chaos and yet, despite all its fragility, is also intended to show dynamism and strength.”
And the art historian Dr. Elke Ullrich sums it up very nicely: “Mystically and enigmatically, the painter searches for new worlds, knowing full well that this can only be a virtual paradise. […] The revealing and obscuring of light, shadow and blue hour reveals questions and visualizes an exploration that corresponds universally to human nature and finds its individual form here.”
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