Narcisa Adalgisa Škopac

LANDSCAPES OF THE SOUL BY NARCISA ADALGISA ŠKOPAC

Narcisa Adalgisa Škopac paints and exhibits indefatigably. Always and repeatedly fascinated with colours and forms of her native Istria, she transfers a whirlwind of experienced emotions onto canvas, creating distinctive compositions with a fairy-tale atmosphere.

Putting together a collage of painted surfaces, as well as playing with colouristic perspective and a hierarchy of meaning, make her painting close to children's world, the world of utter and sincere playfulness. Moved by long strokes of the brush, trees and houses dance to the rhythm of contrastic, often complementary colours. Tops of trees, in the shape of a heart, leaf or a circle, tightened in clearly defined contours and animated through relation between colour and light, grow irrepressibly into space as life itself. Silent presence of houses and cottages create timelessness of dreams and chidhood, where everything is possible and everything makes sense.

Istrian landscapes present only a starting point, something real and substantial which has been transformed, through Narcisa's creative expression, into pure emotion and landscape of the soul.

BIOGRAPHY

Narcisa Adalgisa Škopac was born in Pula in 1969. She finished her primary and secondary education in Labin. She graduated from the University of Rijeka, Faculty of Pedagogy in 1991 (Painting Department in the class of professor Ksenija Mogin) as the art professor. During her study, she was engaged in creating costumes, masks and scenography for various theatre plays in Rijeka and Istria region. Besides her creative work, from 1992 she has been teaching art at Matija Vlačić Primary School in Labin, managing art workshops for children.
Since her first individual exposition in 1989 she has been attracting public attention, receiving praises for her work in great numbers. She has participated in many individual and group exhibitions in the country and abroad and won numerous acknowledgements and awards. Inspired by Istrian region, she has created several successful cycles: ''Endlessness'', ''Vivid Time'', ''Vivid Time I'', ''Istrian Landscape''. ''Scents of Colours''. At CamerotArte 2005, the Ist International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Marina di Camerota (Salerno) she was selected among twenty artists from all over the world as an author whose work would be part of the permanent exhibition of the future museum in this Italian town.
She is a member of  the Istrian HDLU (Croatian Association of Artists) in Pula. She lives and works in Labin.