NATALIA TARAVKOVA
RENNES FRANCE
Visual artist & art teacher since 2009
EDUCATION
2011 - 2015 | History of art, Jean-François Chevrier lecture course, Fine Arts National High School (les Beaux-Arts), Paris, France
2010 | Visual Expression high honor diploma, European Fine Arts High School of Brittany (EESAB), Quimper, France
2008 | Visual Art diploma, Fine Arts National High School (ENSAB), Lyon, France
LINKS:
https://www.instagram.com/natalia_taravkova/
WORKS ARE PRESENTED
Quinconce gallery, Rennes, France
La maison rouge, Antoine de Galbert Fondation, Paris, France
PROJECTS, EXHIBITIONS, RESIDENCIES:
solo shows (selected):
2024 | This stone I live in, Quinconce gallery, Montfort on Meu, France
2018 | Born from the foam, Vivarium studio, Rennes, France
2011 | Theory of the Red Queen, Artaban gallery, Paris, France
group shows (selected):
2020 | The small portable cosmogony, LOTO collective, Brussels, Belgium
2017 | Storm-battered ships, Ateliers du vent, Rennes, France
2014 | The Vestibule(s), La maison rouge, Antoine de Galbert fondation, Paris, France
art fairs, biennales:
2023 | Les Rendez-vous à St.-Briac, Quinconce gallery, France
2011 | Slick Dessin / Dessins Exquis, Zeitgeist gallery, Paris, France
residencies :
2012 | Nepokorennie studio, Saint-Petersbourg, Russia
2012 | Gerard Garoust Foundation, Villarceaux, France
2010 | Grrrnd Zero, Lyon, France
ARTIST VOICE
Natural sciences, empirical practices, poetry and philosophy are my everyday inspiration.
Drawings, objects or installations have biomorphic forms. Such living organisms in the beginning of a life, they are formed by successive layers of tissue. Their evolution involves accidental deformations, explosions and unexpected spots.
While drawing I learn more about my own body. Each movement of my body influences the drawing to come : the slightest uncontrolled movement will inevitably modify its final shape which becomes an enormous print of the accidents produced by my hand, a momentary imbalance of my arm, a more or less comfortable position of my body... my body - this image I am constantly having an experience of, among all other images of the world... the infinitesimally small world, the macroscopic environment we are used to, or the borderless cosmic space.
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