The artwork features a serene and dreamlike composition. The colors are muted, with a predominance of soft grays and pinks, creating a sense of tranquility. The central figure is depicted in a flowing, ethereal garment, their hands gently resting on a cluster of round, organic forms in the lush, verdant grass. The overall style and technique suggest a surreal, almost mystical quality, inviting the viewer to ponder the deeper symbolism or narrative behind the scene. The artist's intention appears to be evoking a sense of contemplation and connection with nature and the natural world. ...
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Fragmentation suggests anteriority, decay and loss in relation to some superseded whole.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. ...
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