Eternal Recurrence #2

Eternal Recurrence #2 by Natasha Zupan
10" x 7"
One of a kind
Photo collage with intervention by the artist
2015
Signed by artist

Natasha Zupan’s work juxtaposes emotion, reflection, shadows, light, time, images, and abstractions in a confrontation between traditional representation and contemporary subjectivities. She manipulates and interweaves concepts of time. Time, past, and future are united in a perpetual possibility of change.

Her work captures the resonances and the echoes and reflections of conflict and evolution. Zupan’s work is not about translating a world that already exists. It is about an entrance to a different universe.

She combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies and transformation. Collage allows emotions to converge with the material. She plays with the juxtaposition of the past and present in an atmosphere of no time. She seeks baroque minimalism. The materials she uses consist of embroidered silks dating back from the 18th century coded with time and meaning.

She uses gold leaf, pigments, rabbit skin glue, acrylic, oil, charcoal, photographs, encyclopedias, magazines, and current images from the Internet. The work is informed by romance, desire, disillusion, torment, ecstasy, dream, and myth. Her best works are erotic displays of mental confusion particularly concerning relationships. She usually work in series to emphasize repetition, and obsession.