The artwork depicts a nude female figure lying on a grassy field under a starry night sky. The composition is striking, with the figure's body partially obscured by a translucent veil that appears to be covered in luminous stars. The use of vibrant blues and greens, along with the sparkling effects, creates a dreamlike, ethereal atmosphere. The subject matter explores themes of the female form, nature, and the cosmos, with the artist employing a distinctive surrealistic style and technique. This piece likely reflects the artist's intention to evoke a sense of wonder and mysticism, inviting the viewer to ponder the connections between the human body, the natural world, and the vastness of the universe. ...
Borrowing the formal qualities of icon painting, Natalia Gonzalez Martin’s work explores the inscriptions of a cultural heritage on one’s physical body and moral codes.
Placed in a bucolic setting, the figures represented are often adorned with detailed elements as delicate as fabrics, ripe tempting fruits and crawling insects. They are filled with historic symbolism, allowing us to pay attention to the traditions, gestures and habits we have inherited.
Natalia’s work merges the characters from old fables with the constant supply of images we are subjected to daily aiming to blur the boundaries between divine, secular and earth in order to gesture towards other ways of desiring, feeling or being in the world, attuned to these paradoxes.
Fragmentation suggests anteriority, decay and loss in relation to some superseded whole. As an antidote to this, the German tradition of Weltlandschaft painting (World’s Landscape), offers an imaginary panoramic landscape seen from an elevated viewpoint where everything is depicted with hallucinatory detail, allowing the artist to compress the totality of the world in a painting. Natalia creates a synthesis of both these ideas; a totality in the fragment, permitting the viewer to project their own experiences onto these universal gestures. ...
