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CONTEMPORARY ART REVIEW
LandEscape meets

Rada Yakova

An interview by Katherine Williams , curator and Josh Ryder , curator landescape @ europe . com
Visual artist Rada Yakova ' s work accomplishes an insightful exploration of the connection between moving body and painting , turning them into one united language , to walk the viewers through a multilayered experience , inducing them to elaborate personal associations and interpretations . Her style rejects any conventional classifications and is marked with freedom as well as coherence , while encapsulating a careful attention to composition and balance . One of the most impressive aspects of Yakova ' s work is the way it accomplishes the difficult task of transforming tension to harmony : we are very pleased to introduce our readers to her stimulating and multifaceted artistic production .
Hello Rada and welcome to LandEscape : before starting to elaborate about your artistic production would you like to tell us something about your background ? You have a solid formal training and after having graduated from the National High School of Fine Arts “ Iliya Petrov ” in Sofia you moved to Austria to further your education degree from the prestigious University of Applied Arts , Vienna . How did this experience influence your evolution as an artist ? And in particular , how does your cultural substratum inform the way you relate yourself to art making and to the aesthetic problem in general ?
I believe that Bulgaria and the whole eastern Europe have big influence in classical art . Dance , painting , music … and I thing this was the best place to learn the basics . Apparently to become a true artist is not enough to learn how to paint . In Vienna I had the privilege to study graphic design and advertising in the class of prof . Luerzer , one of the giants in the advertising world . To work close and