name: PAL - Pop Art Lounge
vitaDuo Feric/Hengst unifies Pop-Art and „Heimat“-idyll
Artistic “it gives us only in double-pack”, saying Natalija Feric and Timo Hengst like out of one mouth, laughing and immediately seriously again, because it’s them for “to create art passionately-jointly”. Frequently for days and nights with paled faces, highly motivated and devotedly going to meet the target: “Unifying Pop-Art and Heimat-Idyll”.
Natalija Feric, with Croatian descent, and partner in life Timo Hengst, both 28 years old, painting faces of movie-idols from 50’s, 60’s and 70’s under “Bollenhüte” (traditional Black Forest female hat) and clothe them pictorially into folksy Black forest garbs – real life, life size, poppy, arty, but never bravely.
Born in Classics
Ideas will born by view into movie-classics: Film-dialogues are also important for their work as to internalize Movie-Scenes, saying he with wake look under a French cap and she with darkly and profoundly eyes. They compare themselves at study movies in “creative Background-conversations”, so already “the style merge into the artwork”. At best both want to live in this time minted by cult and myth. Marlene Dietrich, Audrey Hepburn, Marilyn Monroe or James Dean – all from then belong to this world art- and cult-world of the Pop-Artists.
The success gives them the kick to continuing this way of art. Above all interested parties from USA, United Kingdom and Sweden are frankly for such effect fully Smile-Art. Denoting for the artist-duo is the high quality on perfect, sophisticated artwork: more exciting than any cuckoo clock…
5 years ago they get to know. She was a hotel manageress and he finished his quadrennial Military Service, within a half year encouragement in Kosovo. Both Life were minted by passion for painting in any free minute. They fuse not only as a couple, but also they account their life meaning into jointly art working, without to think about if the maintenance is secured. From initial fast painted pictures (coal, acrylic) is originated an unmistakable Paint-Style.
-Susann Vaternahm, free journalist-
