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Nataliia Stryzhko
Travel Diary. China
Notes on a trip to China
Looking through the diary of a trip to China inspired the artist to create a memoir-quotes project. These memoirs are like colorful accents of past travels. Notes, photos, sketches and calligraphies - all these impressions have now been recreated by Nataliia Stryzhko in the paintings for this upcoming exhibition.Mentally, we are constantly in motion, like on a journey. Chinese philosophy suggests stopping the movement to feel the moment and enjoy it. The contradiction in content of "travel movement" and "stop in the moment" stimulates reflection, invites to let harmony into the thoughts and to accept reality.
Intercultural exchange in the modern world opens many opportunities to learn about cultures and art of other countries. By knowing and studying other cultures we feel our own culture and art more strongly. The energy of meditative contemplation is especially noticeable in the landscape works.
The exhibition Travel Diary.China presents the artist's vision of important symbols of China and the integration of traditions into a modern context.Nataliia Stryzhko, like many artists before her over the centuries, has been inspired by the incredible cultural diversity of China.
Duration: January 24 - April 23, 2023
1080 Vienna, Strozzigasse 36
Nataliia Stryzhko fled Kiev with her son shortly after the war began and now lives in Vienna.
She is a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna and is working on a study of contemporary calligraphy in China.
Her works are already represented in many private collections in Ukraine, but also hang in the official premises of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Selenskyj.
Nataliia Stryzhko, To the light,
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm, 2023
