Natalija Juhart Brglez is a graphic artist-by education and thought! Its means of expression is drawing, but it moves through the space of negative and positive and along the paths of their connection: with engraving, line and point. She achieved recognition through graphic series in etching and screen printing, in which she presents different places to viewers through breaking and composing perspectives. After Paris and Venice, she explored her native Maribor and Ljubljana. Among the striking points, such as Plecnik's Triple Bridge or Ravnikar's high – rise buildings, the author devises corners that reveal that the city is not a homogeneous, rationally readable whole, but an interweaving of memory and view-it is a fragmented and dynamic space.
This time, the selection highlights the work started in 2018, which makes sense to continue today. Cycle 5 homes begins multi-perspective perspectives with an intimate story of the author's five homes: mom's, dad's, grandma's, boyfriend's and tenant's. And she talks about the fragility and split of being (the author kept her things in the car and moved daily between her five homes). Homes were sewn, as Natalia's life was sewn in the sequel. The tensions, love, enchantment, nature and modernism that flow from them, however, are an excellent starting point for today's follow-up in the technique of stitched drawing. From here, the personal address unfolds in a striking range – from the thread of life mythically anchored in women's hands to traditional women's chores associated with sewing and linen.
5 home (polyptych), 2018, stitched drawing on canvas, 100 650 cm (each)
Natalija Juhart Brglez je grafičarka – po izobrazbi in mišljenju! Njeno izrazno sredstvo je sicer risba, vendar se giblje po prostoru negativa in pozitiva ter po poteh njunega povezovanja: z gravuro, linijo in točko. Prepoznavnost je dosegla z grafičnimi serijami v jedkanici in sitotisku, v katerih s pomočjo lomljenja in sestavljanja perspektive gledalcem predstavlja različna mesta. Po Parizu in Benetkah je raziskala še domači Maribor in Ljubljano. Med markantnimi točkami, kot sta Plečnikovo Tromostovje ali Ravnikarjevi stolpnici, avtorica snuje kotičke, ki razkrivajo, da mesto ni homogena, racionalno berljiva celota, temveč preplet spomina in pogleda – je fragmentiran in dinamičen prostor.
Tokrat z izborom poudarjamo delo, začeto v letu 2018, ki ga je danes smiselno nadaljevati. Cikel 5 domov začenja večperspektivne poglede z intimno zgodbo avtoričinih petih domov: maminega, očetovega, babičinega, fantovega in najemniškega. Ter govori o krhkosti in razcepljenosti bivanja (avtorica je svoje stvari hranila v avtu in se dnevno selila med svojimi petimi domovi). Domovi so se sešili, tako kot se je v nadaljevanju sešilo tudi Natalijino življenje. Napetosti, ljubezen, očarljivost, narava in modernizem, ki vejejo iz njih, pa so odlično izhodišče za današnje nadaljnje v tehniki šivane risbe. Osebni nagovor se od tod razpira v presunljivem razponu – od življenjske niti, mitsko zasidrane v ženskih rokah, do tradicionalnih ženskih opravil, povezanih s šivanjem in platnom.
5 domov (poliptih), 2018, šivana risba na platnu, 100 x 150 cm (vsaka)
