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KATE NEAVE
Curator, art writer
Based in Brighton and London, UK
"Control and power are strong themes running through Colombian artist Natalia Trivino Lozano’s politically motivated painting. Restricting her palette to the famously complex Prussian blue, the monotony of colour and strict accuracy of perspective, lends her paintings a menacing intensity. The white chair has become a recurring motif, a potent symbol of authority. It is often tipped or on the verge of collapse adding to the palpable tension in her work.
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FRANCISCO GIL TOVAR
Humanist, art critic, writer and university professor
"The empty chair symbolizing the absence of, and contempt for, the “qualities” is always in the spotlight, thus hinting that the value and the interest they arouse are unrelated thereto. The spaces are not so much physical spaces as mental spaces. They create a disturbing environment fueled sometimes by mystery, others by magic. These paintings were not created to be looked at, used as decoration or to treat your senses. They go beyond the pictorial and go straight to content. When Picasso was presented with Mondrian’s philosopher-inspired artwork, he said: And the drama? Where is the drama?
Upon the intellectual paintings created by Natalia, you don’t need to ask something like that. The drama is there, it is the drama of solitude".