This mesmerizing mixed media artwork stands as a definitive visual statement within the highly celebrated series Eternal Recurrence by prominent artist Natasha Zupan. Actively engaging with themes of romance, desire, and psychological transformation, the artist constructs a complex baroque minimalist layout where historical painterly motifs and modern mass media collide. The composition relies on a one-of-a-kind photo collage on paper, meticulously overlapping hand-torn fragments of Old Master paintings with high-contrast contemporary female portraits. These layered elements are bound together by an expressive, translucent veil of turquoise acrylic paint that disrupts the borders and forces the different timelines into an atmosphere of no time.
Zupan combines images from old masters, alchemical prints, contemporary artists, and bits from magazines and newspapers to create overlapping, intersecting worlds of transparencies and transformation. Colleges allow emotions to converge with the material, the juxtaposition of the past and present in an atmosphere of no time. She seeks baroque minimalism. The work is informed by romance, desire, disillusion, torment, ecstasy, dream, and myth. Her best works are erotic displays of mental confusion, particularly concerning relationships. She usually works in series to emphasize repetition and obsession
Detailed micro-view showcasing the hand-torn paper edges, gestural blue acrylic paint layers, and textured typography cutouts on Natasha Zupan's piece.
Mixed Media Artwork - Eternal Recurrence #48, 2015. By Natasha Zupan
Eternal Recurrence #48, 2015
From the series Eternal Recurrence
Photo collage with intervention by the artist
Dimensions: 14 H x 11.5 W in.
One of a Kind
Unframed
Signed by the artist
Born in Georgia (USA), Raised in Europe. Yale-educated. Natasha Zupan is an internationally acclaimed figure in the art world, Natasha shows annually throughout Europe, Asia, and the United States, including a few exhibitions at the Columbus Museum of Art, Georgia . The artist has also been a muse for the famous fashion label Larusmiani, Zang Toi and di Liborio as well as being commissioned by Atelier Swaroski to produce a Crystal Chandelier and Mattel to produce a painting about Barbie, to celebrate her 50th anniversary.
















