Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets
Rada Yakova
An interview by Katherine Williams, curator and Josh Ryder, curator landescape @ europe. com
Visual artist Rada Yakova ' s work accomplishes an insightful exploration of the connection between moving body and painting, turning them into one united language, to walk the viewers through a multilayered experience, inducing them to elaborate personal associations and interpretations. Her style rejects any conventional classifications and is marked with freedom as well as coherence, while encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance. One of the most impressive aspects of Yakova ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of transforming tension to harmony: we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production.
Hello Rada and welcome to LandEscape: before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background? You have a solid formal training and after having graduated from the National High School of Fine Arts“ Iliya Petrov” in Sofia you moved to Austria to further your education degree from the prestigious University of Applied Arts, Vienna. How did this experience influence your evolution as an artist? And in particular, how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general?
I believe that Bulgaria and the whole eastern Europe have big influence in classical art. Dance, painting, music … and I thing this was the best place to learn the basics. Apparently to become a true artist is not enough to learn how to paint. In Vienna I had the privilege to study graphic design and advertising in the class of prof. Luerzer, one of the giants in the advertising world. To work close and