“The art of exemption makes the point. Natalia Zourabov’s painting is experienced as the multi-layer absence….
Without doubts Zourabov’s paintings contain a certain code, a secret key. However the viewer also interested in, would never comprehend it. It’s impossible and useless to break this intriguing code since it was created on the basis of personal experience. In fact it’s not a secret but appears to be hermetically sealed….
Suddenly the viewer realizes to be transferred somewhere he did not expect to be. This odd, almost psychotic jump is a decoding key. Project reality is irrational even outside politics. It’s like an acid trip without acid…”
Alexander Evangely (art critic, curator), Moscow
“Even though the figures and landscapes in these works are taken from reality, the choice of colors and the order in which they are applied on the support creates a surrealist picture revealing a strange world of images disconnect from their context, which gives the work the quality of a dream or hallucination.
The figures seem to move between the field of the realistic and the realm of the imagination and the connections between them creates a hypnotic picturesque fantasy…
All the work in the exhibition surrounded by an aura of mystery, and the strong colors do not manage to overcome the gloomy atmosphere of most of them…
The way in which the works are exhibited is also reminiscent of fields of cinema and photography, where the spectator fills the role of onlooker who penetrates the screen and becomes an integral part of the cinematic narrative. The story does not have a narrative continuity and the events seem to be moved from any scenario... Ora Kraus (art curator), Israel