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Maria Marchese about the Jacquounain's works

"It became the Paris of another era ......
The inspired Paris which spoke, blazed in space, which threw every day into the world a new work, a truth, a crime , a discovery?...
Ohe! Does France no longer think it's fantastic, or pretend not to remember what it believed, she said, it did in its wonderful days of greatness and faith?
She stretched out her soul or let it die out with a passing breath; and so many flames and the past what is left now?
Nothing, except here it is the ... the last reverberation of a buried glory"

Eugène Pelletan (French politician and writer 1813-1844)

LUTETIA II This link which celebrates the history of Paris, expressed by the title of the work "Lutetia N ° 2" (Lutetia Parisiorum was the cradle of Roman Gaul, ancestor of the French capital), translated by the Russian artist, in an almost monochrome image, it seems well masked by the nostalgic words of the French writer Pelletan. With them, he celebrates, lyrically, the bright and Parisian colors, lost, submerged by an "asymptomatic" urban modernity.

Natalia Jacquounain stands out on the canvas, expressing herself through a thoughtful and balanced artistic touch, a melancholy portrait of current reality, which permeates the French capital.
The capable esthete envelops, in a cautious incest which descends into the breaths of gray, the thrill and the impulse of his own feeling, towards what Paris represented.
It is the yellow color that expresses these refined emotional impulses: it becomes a spokesperson for intellectual faculty, wisdom and spirituality.
In "Lutetia N ° 2", Natalia Jacquounain depicts a "common ground", suspended, between a glorious past and a sterile present.
A conflictual relationship, trapped in a dense network of relationships which, paradoxically, sanctions the alienation of human beings.
This work represents another confirmation of the sensitivity and deep depth of the Russian artist, who draws attention to the individual and his own existential events.