Petkova Evelina | Contemporary Artist: Artworks & Biography

Between realism and symbolism, Evelina Petkova’s acrylic tableaus, created on Buckram with brush and knife, and stone sculptures take us to our most naked state, to nature filled with raw emotion, to our most stripped condition. The body does of course play a primordial role in this context. Its inclusion as support and tool is omnipresent in the artist’s works. Sculpture and painting really go « corps-à-corps » (hand-in-hand) with the subject matter. The physical relationship established between the artist and her work crystallises the primitive nature of a first gesture that prevails and preexists. As an instrument of communication, the artist also considers the body to be the key to a metaphysical experience which transcends reality to share itself by means of transfiguration, creation and contemplation.