Natacha Donzé, Soothing solutions, 2019

2019

Medium

Acrylic on canvas

Dimensions

90 × 150 cm

Status

In Gallery Collection

Collect24 Art ID

C24-155809

The surface of Natacha Donzé's painting “Soothing solutions” (2019), with its intense green tones, looks like the view through night vision goggles, revealing luminous protozoa swimming across a pictorial space. On each corner of the four assembled canvases, silvery delicate limbs of liquid mass stretch out and seek their way into the paintings. Combined, they appear as arrows and the spaces between the canvases as crosshairs, suggesting a scientific order of each individual element in the picture. Simultaneously, these elements frame the individual canvases and convey the feeling of special objects set like precious stones. This impression is reinforced by a snaking red ribbon that knots itself around the only opening in the painting, as if around a gift. Donzé skillfully plays with microcosms and macrocosms in her paintings, leaving viewers with a sense of elusive duplication. This impression is reinforced by repetition, for example by the use of the grid, one hand automatically created from the quadripartition of the canvas and is repeated in the ribbon’s intertwining. This creates several ordered levels, fluid due the flat paint application with its soft transitions.