Extract from 'Incubus and Dreams' by Aurelio de Rose

When for the first time I came upon works of Nadia Pronina, I immediately perceived, with instinctive spontaneity, the symbology that the chromatic expressions aroused. Whole pictorial signs, realized in a complex textures, determine a representative constant of the nature-man unity, morphologically indistinct. Her artwork determines itself in a completeness of fantastic and anxious images, sometimes obsessive, both in the interlacement of body elements and in their difference, almost uniting to look for a reconciliation and dominant affirmation of their own being.

The sign begins as unconscious. Surreal visions, that have the principal source in the steady segmentation of colours. Nets of ancient memories realized in the complexity of feelings, their density is in the gestures that are combined in an absurd interlacement of embraces: memory of dreams and nightmares. Mixture of gigantic birds as symbol of migrations hoped for; intimate distortions that transform themselves, awaiting for an affirmation of survival.

Aurelio de Rose, Naples, 2003