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| YVAA DENES 2007 |
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May, 30th –
June 10th, 2007 Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje |
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Jury: Hristijan Panev (art historian), Atanas Botev (artist), Dalibor Trencevski (artist), Oliver Musovik (artist) |
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Nominated artist: Boris Petrovski, Nikola Uzunov,Velimir Zernovski and Verica Kovacevska |
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BORIS PETROVSKI (WINER YVAA DENES 2007) |
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DISTORTIONS |
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Video instalation, 2006 |
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CHANGED CONDITIONS In his video performance Distortions, Boris Petrovski is visually presenting the process of mutual effect through which the city and its citizens are going every day. In fact, it is a video documentation from the performance that artist did walking with a piece of tinplate in his hands on the “Macedonia” square. Petrovski uses tinplate as reflecting space that becomes temporary witness of interaction between incidental passersby’s figures and surrounding buildings. Modified faces and bodies are reflected on the smooth and distorting surface simultaneously with altered fragments of the city space and its objects. Thus, the tinplate surface becomes a metaphor of performing process within the reciprocal urban transformation. (Suzana Milevska, an excerpt from text) Boris Petrovski, born in Skopje, 1975. Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, Department of Sculpture and Graphic Design, BFA 1998. From 1996 he works as a decor artist of trance parties. Contact address: “H. T. Karpos ” 18, 1000 Skopje Тel. +389 2 2611153 Мob.+389 70 695807 e-mail: afadecor@mt.net.mk Web site: www.afadrenalin.com |
| NIKOLA UZUNOSKI |
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| UNSAID (WISH), 2006, cake, candle |
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See this picture, well it’s
not the picture, it’s not even the "installation," ...well I don’t know what
it is! The public did not tell me what they wish for! The cake with the
candle was there, the matches were there, the people were there, but
everyone light their candle for oneself and thought about something else. One of the curators said this is not a cake! It’s too small (maybe his wish was to have a bigger cake?) My mother was angry because I didn’t bake the cake… Two artists were blowing the candle one after another saying “It's my Artwork now!” If you could see the wishes the people made… Close your eyes make a wish... Nicola Uzunovski, born in Zemun, (Serbia) 1979. Academy of fine arts, Naples (Italy), BFA 2003. F.A.R. Superior course of visual arts Como, Italy 2003. Venice University Institute of Architecture, Visual Arts Production, Venice, Italy, MFA 2007. Academy of fine arts, Time-space arts, Helsinki, Finland 2005. Currently lives and works in Venice and Helsinki Contact address: Giudecca 620 30133 Venezia, Italy Tel: +39 3494144095 e-mail: uzunovski@yahoo.com web site: www.nikolauzunovski.com |
| VELIMIR ZERNOVSKI |
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Welcome to Skopje acrilic on canvas, 2006 |
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Welcome to Skopje is a series of
paintings created with acrylic on canvas; it is the first segment of a
broader long-term project that Velimir Žernovski has been working on in the
past two years. The concept of Welcome to Skopje is a response to the almost
non-existent promotional initiative of the capitol. In such an environment,
the artist takes responsibility in his own hands and attempts to promote
parts of his hometown that he considers attractive at the moment and
reflects city’s condition. Velimir Zernovski, born in Skopje, 1981. Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, BFA 2005. Lives and works in Skopje. Contact address: Zeleznicka 30, 1000 Skopje Tel+389 02 317 95 17 Mob+389 70 624 009 e-mail: velimir_zernovski@yaho.com |
| VERICA KOVACEVSKA |
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EVERYDAY ART, THE ART OF THE EVERYDAY instalation, 2006 |
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In this one-year project with a previously
determined timeframe (03.01.2005-03.01.2006), the artist meticulously, and often
obsessively, described what happened each day of the year and what her thoughts
on it were. Sometimes in less and sometimes in more detail she illustrated
different situations in her life (e.g. preparing an art festival
application/exhibition, looking for a job, being ill, travelling abroad, etc.),
noted her mundane “rituals” (e.g. eating, sleeping, watching TV), and discussed
about current topics (e.g. the Macedonian art scene, artists’ professional
development, war against terror, visa regime, etc). |