Rada Yakova
Land scape
CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW consider the immersive nature of the viewing experience?
One of my favorite Bulgarian writers Vladimir Zarev said it perfectly in one of his books:“ The unsaid, the omitted in every art work is loaded with special meanings. Sometimes the unspoken is the most important and is probably the only possible perfection.” I love that. We have to leave space to the viewer to be part of the painting by creating their own stories of it. Last time, at an art fair in Barcelona, I had a painting with no name. Apparently a lot of people liked especially this one and they were all asking me why the painting had no name. Well, sometimes even a name gives that exact meaning and if you want the public to participate more with their own imagination, then leave the name out.
A crucial aspect of your work is the insightful investigation about the connection between moving body and image: how does this relationship affect your practice?
The first time I’ ve entered the act hall in Vienna, I couldn’ t show a lot of my potential. The model was moving every minute. It was a disaster. As you just said, its all about the practice. In the moving body there is much more power just like in a moving brush. This is very important for my idea of Prima, where I want to show the power of a women.
Your pieces are marked out with an effective combination between both delicate and thoughtful nuances of tones sums up the mixture of thoughts and emotions. How much does your own psychological make-up determine the nuances of tones you decide to use in a piece and in particular, how do you develop a painting’ s texture? Moreover, any comments on your choice of " palette " and how it has changed over time?
My resent work is mainly black and white. Or with some very delicate colours. When I first came to the Netherlands, I got a great working space, only for me. For the first time I had finally the chance to work on bigger size canvases. I wasn’ t painting for somebody or for something, just experimenting with the sizes and … just having fun. However, when buying all the