FURNITURE AND ARTISTRY AS ONE:
CAN ART BE COMFORTABLE?
ontemporary artist and expressive interior designer Veronika Kopelianski, more known as Nika
Lo, creates art that will not leave you indifferent. Have you ever imagined art as a comfy
armchair or a multifunctional mirror, serving you as a painting and source of light at the same
time? The artist believes – there are no limits for art and creativity. From now on, you can
experience art to the fullest – as a functional, comfortable and unique piece of your interior.
Nika Lo is an emerging contemporary artist, currently based in Vilnius, who entered Lithuanian
art market with a bang and aroused interest and many discussions among artists and gallery
representatives from Western Europe in Italy, Spain and United Kingdom. Her striking and
expressive style attracts the viewers eye and is memorable for breath-
taking mysterious atmosphere that her artworks bring. In the paintings,
the artist is focusing on portraying contemporary women and their inner
world. Nika Lo chooses to illustrate women partially or fully naked,
in the way telling a true story behind,
without lies and layers –
the characters from her
paintings confront the
viewers with honesty and
straightforward gaze.
You may ask – how come
she decided to create fine
art furniture?
The idea behind the project
of interior design as a form of
art, came to Veronika’s mind
after she realized that people are
becoming more distant from art
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and it is approachable for an exclusively
narrow audience. Following her desire
to make a difference, the artist decided
to recreate the objects from her paintings
to reality and give them new physical forms
that are often confronting us on a daily basis.
The furniture is not only practical but also
expressively artistic – it plays a role of functional,
comfortable and creativity-boosting accent of
the interior. In other words, you are inviting the
Muse herself to your own space.
The concept of furniture consists of five different
objects – the armchairs, coffee-tables, mirrors,
partition walls and rugs, which were inspired by
Mythological Goddesses: each of them have a direct
reference to historical muses Athene, Artemis,
Alethea, Aphrodite and Venus. Understanding, that
design matter is only a half-work done, the artist
decides to deepen her knowledge and to learn how
constructions of furniture and mirrors are made in
the first place. Seeking for a golden middle, Veronika
works with professionals in the fabrics and puts all of
the effort adapting her vision to practical comfort in
one piece.
Not only it is a unique designed fine art furniture, but
also a hand-made individual pieces that can be seen
as equivalent to contemporary art that we usually see
in galleries and museums.
Nika Lo is a concept of contemporary art and
expressive interior, based on the main vision: to
discover new interior solutions between art and
functional comfort. All furniture and fine art objects
are custom made to satisfy the passion for art and
extraordinary comfort. Poets, artists and geniuses
were giving all the credits for their works to Muses,
who were inspiring them for creating life-changing
ideas. Now, there is no need to search for the Muse
– you can invite her to your own interior and find
inspiration within.
www.nikaloart.com
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