YVAA DENES 2004

June, 25th – July 01st, 2004

Museum of Macedonia, Kurshumli An

 

Jury:
Sonja Abadzieva (custos in Museum of Contemporary Art); Stanko Pavleski (artist, professor in Faculty of Fine Art),

Slavica Janeshlieva (artist); Nade Peseva (curator); Kalina B. Isakovska (director, CAC)

 

Nominated artist:
Oliver Musovic, Ljubomir Milosevski, OPA (Slobodanka Stevceska & Denis Saraginovski)

and Hristina Ivanovska / Jane Calovski

 

 

Oliver Musovic

 

 

MAMA © TELESHOP
spatial installation, 2003
(10 photos 50x80cm each, 10 texts 21x30cm each, video)

 

short description
This work is done in collaboration with my mother - Makedonka Andonova. It is a spatial installation which consists of series of photos, texts and video infomercials. The project offers a personal, anecdotal view on the new processes of consumerism of our “transitional” society, above all on the “direct marketing”, and it tries to make an analysis of the new consumer psychology (not a very serious one), where the act of shopping becomes almost a religious act and the branded products, objects of adoration.

Oliver Musovik, born 1971in Skopje, Macedonia. Graduated in 1997 from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, department of Printmaking. 2004 MFA, Faculty of Fine Arts, Skopje.

contact:
address: Branko Zarevski 17/2/3, 1050 Skopje – Dracevo, Macedonia
tel: 00 389 2 2792456; 00 389 70 744850
e-mail: musovik@mt.net.mk
web: www.cac.org.mk/artists/musovik
 
 
Ljubomir Milosevski
 
 
CARRIES
installation, 2004
metal and bones, h 2,70 m
 
From a formal point of view, the installation “Caries” (2004) by Ljubomir Miloševski consits of three roots foundations made of animal bones, with leaf-like shapes that coalesce with the mass: they are sticked on metal pillars. In each root there is a head inserted, frontally positioned. Above all of them dominates centrally positioned skull, an element that connect them in a functional unity.
In the art piece “Caries” the aesthetic is less important. The visual impression is focused on a composition of throwen bones. This ‘mess-like’ and ‘vagueness’ creates more dramatic situation, while the ‘caries’ that is decaying the bones represents a metaphor of the rottenness of the human kind, the reality of the past. Cruelly true bones suggest relationship with today’s political and social madness, domination, violence, mass-destruction...
This art piece, made trough a process of long construction, exists in its primary comprehensiveness of a ritual figure, provocative in its obsessiveness and intensity which tend to become totemical archetype forms with simbolic power. The moral and existential dimension of the art piece is vivible trough an articulation of the simbolical moments of the tragic psychological impression of emptiness, destruction, fear, vain, schocking, human cruelty, ephemerality/death, getting back to the instincts. Trough offered (apocalyptical even) vision of the human kind and the fascination of the correlation of the human and the animal trough their basic instincts for survival makes this art piece functional on the level of brutal existentialism.

Ljubomir Miloseski is born 1974 in Struga, Macedonia. Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, pedagogy department of painting, in the class of prof. Rubens Korubin. M.A. 2002 at the same Academy, painting department, in the class of prof. Rodoqub Anastasov.

Contact:
address: Draslaica, 6330 Struga, Macedonia
tel.: 00 389 70 820737
e-mail: miloseski@yahoo.com
 

 

OPA - Obsessive Possessive Aggression (WINER YVAA DENES 2004)
 

   

WINDOW TO THE WORLD
iInstallation, 2004

 

Slobodanka Stevceska, born in Skopje 1971. 1998 Graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Majoring Painting - Pedagogical Department, Second course: Graphic Design

 

Denis Saraginovski, born in Skopje 1971. 1991 – 1996 Faculty of Fine Arts, Skopje, Painting Department, Second course: Handmade Paper

 

contact:
fax: ++389 2 321 70 60
e-mail: opa4opa@yahoo.com
web: http://www.opa.org.mk

 

 

Hristina Ivanovska / Jane Calovski

 

 

SPIRAL SWIM LINE, 2004

 

The construction of thhis large relational structure is done with the consideration and the implications of the local site, its social, cultural and political context, attempting to provide a public discourse to monumentality achieved trough personal reading and engagement. In the case of Spiral Swim Line, its monumentality, as much in the formal aspect of the work, depend on the use of condensed time of fourteen days of production and the human resources provided from the local community.
The imperative in Spiral Swim Line is to stay true to the form and the dimensios of the Spiral Jetty using material that originates from the public context of Rincon, Puerto Rico. The work offers an unprecedented experience engaging the participant with its 1450 feet long structure while understanding the monumentality of Smithson’s work and one’s personal relationship to the environment.

Hristina Ivanovska (1974, Skopje) and Jane Calovski (1973, Skopje) are collaborating since 2000. Their projects animate multilayered conceptual possibilities through the intense associations questioning the dinamic of the artistic practice. Inspired by accumulated knowledge, intuitive references, historical and present day contexts, simulataniously, both of them engage in their individual directions, then coming together and developing an usual logic of the nature of their continual collaboration.

contact:
hristinai@yahoo.com; yanecalo@yahoo.com