The W. B. Collection (Experiment) - 2022, seria of 10 paintings, large scale, pigments, acrylic binder on canvas - painted by Natalija Šeruga Golob.
The W. B. Collection (The Erard No. 58784) - 2022, seria of 7 paintings, large scale, pigments, acrylic binder on canvas - painted by Natalija Šeruga Golob.
The series of paintings The W. B. Collection is eight small format paintings created by artist Natalija Šeruga Golob. All the paintings have painted images of children with their eyes closed. A sense of nostalgia and commemoration pervades these small art works. Paintings were created with the artist's painting concept, where the past tense is an exquisite and elusive creator of visual images. The artist perceives time as an excellent creator, a hard-to-catch rival of abstract visual images.
Postcards to W. B. are series of 91 small paintings and they are linked to other large format painting work with painting concept. They are simply the result of passionate following of Ariadne's thread in the labyrinth of the unknown. White painted flying horses, romantic landscapes in bright colours, children on rocking horses are the traces of Ariadne's thread through the labyrinth of Time. Small paintings, which are a kind of toys and candies for children in larger paintings. All of them were painted for the joy of children with their eyes closed –on series of paintings Addressed to W. B.
The series of paintings Addressed to W. B. is eight large format paintings created by artist Natalija Šeruga Golob. All the paintings have painted images of children with their eyes closed. Artist is talking to Walter Benjamin through her creating (painting process). In the process of creation, artist is actually just a medium, a mediator, a catalyst. As T. S. Eliot wrote, there is an inseparable intertwining of everything already created through the history of art and one's own experiences, memories and images. Inevitably, artist is embroiled in spiritual relationships with art giants of all kinds.
Vestibule (unfinished) is a series of paintings created by visual artist Natalija Šeruga Golob. Paintings Vestibule as an unfinished creative work that have not been brought to a completed state. The artist may have chosen not to finish it, or may have been prevented from doing so by circumstances beyond control. Although the main topic for these specific unfinished paintings is hard to find, there is no dough that paintings, video and exhibition from this series ware inspired by literal work Vestibule, written by Walter Benjamin.
Paintings Brass Weights are part of the art project Salve Regina created by visual artist Natalija Šeruga Golob.
Natalija Seruga Golob has been developing a painting model that meets with the basic structure of the world. In this structure transformation is a constant, and the end is the precondition for a new beginning.
For artist Natalija Šeruga Golob painting process is a ritual, a bridge between the real and the transcendental.
Paintings by Natalija Šeruga; Solutio Perfecta is the result of a personal quest: a search for her own identity and her relationship to the world. Her paintings, in which the infinitely plus is reflected in the infinitely minus, develops organically from her inner psyche.
Cycle of paintings bears the common title Cinis Cinereum, which means the ash of ashes and reflects the usage of pigment mixture. After finishing the paintings, Natalija Šeruga covers them with ashes (a precise mixture of white and black pigment). During this process, artist leaves it up to the material itself to reveal or obscure parts of the paintings. This ash should not be underestimated, for in it, according to the legendary alchemist Morienus, is the diadem of the king.
Cycle of paintings bears the common title Solve et Coagula. Natalija Šeruga was created on them another world, a feeling of the past and old and a fresh beginning again and again. Just as she has been to her motifs, the painter has been faithful from the very beginning to the stitching of the canvas to the iron under-frame.
Natalija Šeruga Golob, enters the postmodern period bravely and without fear. At first sight, the images seem to escape the censorship of reason. We can only grasp them as allusions, as interpretation of a fantasy background to the event depicted. They both irritate and attract, create unease, destroy our peace and quiet.
The way that Natalija Šeruga handles motifs is akin to a kind of visual poetry. She takes them as she finds them, high or low, and manipulates them at will. Freely associative cycle of paintings explore the relationship between symbols, legibility, meaning.
There is no doubt that Natalija Šeruga Golob is also inspired by nature. Is the Return to Native Places – if we think of the title of the show – one of the answers she has been searching for in her paintings? Regardless of the substantial influence of her surroundings and the artist’s direct experience of them, Šeruga’s purpose appears to be the precise opposite: concrete scenes are presented in order to speak of hidden content.
In 2007 Šeruga's paintings became densely covered with ornaments. These ornaments assume the role of apotropaic patterns. As such, they turn into snares in which demons are helplessly trapped and reduced to harmlessness. A demon will be so fascinated by the ornaments that his malevolence will be completely paralyzed. He will become caught in the pattern, and the person protected by the pattern will be safe. Such ornaments can also be read as tattoos of the painting. And the purpose of a tattoo is likewise not merely decorative but apotropaic as well: it protects the skin or the person it is a part of from evil spells. Ornaments turn into lace, lace into mountain peaks, islands, or treetops. The veils from Šeruga's early paintings transform into phantoms of translucent sheets covered in writing. Unlike the writing from left to right in the Western European tradition, the writing in these paintings is in mirror script.
Cycle of paintings Tarida explores the fundamental question of what to paint (subject matter), and how (technique). Contemporary cycle of paintings with attention to the mystic. While trying to decipher the phantasmagorical scenario of the works by Natalija Šeruga, we inevitably confront the dilemma of how to read the message, we study the demonic dimension of the arabesques, we think about the archetypes and the symbols, about the Dance of Salome and the head of St John the Baptist, about the death in the river Mura, about fear and the eternal darkness, about the male and the female principle and, last but not least, about the tactile-cum-sensuous relationship of the artist to the canvas. The latter is both the physical canvas and the body which is being pierced, fixed by the needle to the metal framework. The visually powerful images are wrapped in the veil of multiple meanings. We are entering the empty space, where logic and the predictable are no more.
Natalija Šeruga Golob, enters the postmodern period bravely and without fear. Her series Nox (Night) is accompanied with elegiac subtitles, read in verse like poetry, like a poetic and at the same time grotesque tale of art in the dark. At first sight, the images seem to escape the censorship of reason. We can only grasp them as allusions, as interpretation of a fantasy background to the event depicted. They both irritate and attract, create unease, destroy our peace and quiet. Cycle of paintings Nox is known for transforming artist inner emotional and psychological world – personal experiences, memories and feelings – into art that is both intimate yet profoundly universal.
Natalija Šeruga Golob is known for her ritual, mystical and associative approach to painting, which is perhaps best summarized as a belief in the total autonomy of the artwork. For her a painting does not need to be ‘emotive’ or ‘understood’: the primary goal of painting is, quite simply, painting, another world. Everything on it: form, color, subject comes from the inside.
Artist Natalija Šeruga Golob committees to the art of painting, famously exploring the infinite potential variations of whichever part of mystic. Natalija Šeruga focuses on the materials, on how and what to paint, on the brushwork, the surfaces, the textures.
Cycle of paintings bears the common title Words, axes. Any sense of time and place is blurred or displaced. The multiple appropriations blend realism, mystery and myth. The space in Natalija Šeruga’s paintings is, on the one hand, eternal and boundless, a spiritual dream universe, and, on the other hand, an edifice of works that function as an orderly whole. Just as she has been to her motifs (gardens, cypresses, hollow figures), the painter has been faithful from the very beginning to the stitching of the canvas to the iron under-frame.
Contemporary paintings with attention to the mystical side of life. Nature, literature and poetry are central to paintings cycle Moon is my Mother made by artist Natalija Šeruga.
Natalija Šeruga uses different painting techniques to create evocative and enigmatic images that explore the mystery, complexity and transience of life.