#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The PolArt (Polar Art) residence of the Norilsk Museum presented a series of textile and graphic works Geometry of Heat by artist Natalia Lotareva from St. Petersburg.
The PolArt (Polar Art) residence curator, the Norilsk Museum director Natalia Fedyanina and PolArt resident Natalia Lotareva
During her two weeks in the polar city, the artist experienced Norilsk in her own way:
“This is a wonderful place where you want to explore, gain impressions, and rethink. Such conditions are very valuable for an artist. In everyday life, you are distracted from creativity by many things, even everyday routine. But here you are entirely in the process. As a resident in a new, unusual place, I wanted to work with urban landscapes, city sketches, rhythms, but take with me the comfort I am accustomed to from home, in the form of textiles. I applied images supplemented with small phrases to fabric canvases consisting of two types of fabric – a colored background and a central monochrome part”, says Natalia Lotareva.
The name of the project – Geometry of Heat – refers to the geometry of Norilsk streets and buildings and at the same time to the warm summer days, of which there were enough in the outgoing August.
“You mainly see the routes that I walked every day. For a long time, bright pop art works, painting and graphics on the theme of fashion and characters of megacities, ironic, grotesque occupied a central place in my practice. Now I want to work with textiles, its plasticity and pliability, some kind of soulfulness and, perhaps, even femininity. This is a material that calms you down”.
The textiles in which the artist seemed to wrap her acrylic paintings on canvas create a feeling of warmth and home comfort. It is no coincidence that the guests of the vernissage expressed a desire to have such an original scarf or such a decorative pillowcase.
Recall that a new guidebook – Norilsk. Taimyr – has been published. We also told that Talnah residents collect stones for the geopark.
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Text: Anzhelika Stepanova, Photo: Norilsk Museum
