An artist of Czech origin, Nada Kelemenova imprints her work with an authentic and unmistakable mark, achieving a refined synthesis of abstraction and expressionism. Each of her paintings is a pulsating universe, the result of an intimate dialogue between gesture and intuition, between control and surrender. Her mark is often free, instinctive, at times impulsive, yet never random. It emerges from an authentic need, from an inner drive that guides the artist’s hand in a conscious movement, capable of restoring intensity and presence to the pictorial space.
The cornerstone of Kelemenova’s research, however, is color. It is not merely an aesthetic choice but manifests as a living substance, capable of transforming space into a sensitive perception. It is color that pulses, flows, and overlays in veils and layers, often allowing the raw material to surface. The result is a fluid, almost corporeal rhythm, perceived like a silent melody that traverses the canvas and awakens the senses. Painting thus becomes a living surface, to be explored not only through the gaze but through the most intimate part of oneself. Cracks, reliefs, and tactile ripples intertwine with color, until the canvas itself is felt as living skin – fragile and powerful at once – a vessel that holds the mystery of form in its process of metamorphosis.
This sensation is vividly present in the work titled Avatar. Here, the artist explores the sensory suggestions of color and form, giving shape to a vision suspended between presence and dissolution. The dominant blue does not function as a mere chromatic choice; rather, it represents an inner space, a place of listening and reflection.
An undefined form at the center of the painting seems to rise from a liquid depth: a transient presence, as the title suggests, that manifests for a moment before fading away. The brushstrokes are layered, creating density, visual tension, and depth. The intensity of the blue is animated by sudden chromatic accents – green, pink, orange – that break the background’s continuity, introducing contrast and generating further visual vibrations.
IThis is a composition that follows no rigid structure, but unfolds according to a dynamic balance in which each element finds its place. A work that does not seek to impose itself as narrative, but as perceptual experience, one where attention is drawn to what remains suspended… an ambiguous apparition that questions the gaze, leading it beyond the visible toward a more intimate and intuitive dimension.