YVAA DENES 2011

13th – 28th July, 2011 Museum of the city Skopje

Jury: Lazo Plavevski (art historian), Ismet Ramicevick (artist), Kristina Bozurska (artist)

Nominated artist: Ilija Prokopiev, Filip Jovanovski, Blagojce Naumoski - Bane, Eli Ainoska-Hristovska

Ilija Prokopiev (WINER YVAA DENES 2011)

STUDIES FOR A VERY LARGE DRAWINGS

Since last exhibition, my drawings not only rose in number but grew in dimensions as well. Such a tendency of growth is because my main interests are focused on plastic and visual possibilities of space. The idea of space and spatiality, in a broad sense, becomes my personal method for analyzing and interpreting the personal, historical and cultural images, phenomena and innovations. The themes and motifs are supposed to look free and associative to the observer. The reasons for this obsession with the space that leads me to the various of experiments, solutions and results, cannot be pinpointed. But I am absolutely sure, that is the reason why I’m not afraid to stuck in the elevator.

Filip Jovanovski, finalist DENES Award, 2011

DON’T STARE SO ROMANTICALLY!

The exhibition is a spatial replica/reproduction of Delacroix’s Liberty leading the people referring to the definition of the ideal of freedom anew. On the one hand the idea to a produce a replica of this historic piece of art is an attempt to set and re-contextualize the meaning of art-making once again. On the other hand, it emphasizes the local qualities and the authentic aesthetics (we also have history of arts of our own, we also have freedom of our own). In other words, holograms should be made in Japan, while iron should be welded in Macedonia. This is not to be said ironically, on the contrary, it is to be said in terms of creating one’s own identity so that there is no pure idea, the idea has to emerge out of the material possibilities and the quality of the context. The question of experiencing and presenting the artistic form in certain context arises: how to discover the meanings of the existing context once again, but also to rediscover the context that has to be redefined as well? The exposition creates new context referring to Brecht’s ideal of freedom (Don’t stare so romantically! Drums in the night) to the ideal of freedom in the history of art i.e. Delacroix’ s Liberty leading the people and the ideal of freedom in the social context which is the audio quote of Robespierre’s Danton’s death in Stevo Zigon’s speech in front of the students in Belgrade. 1968. The project is a fragment/memory of experiencing the ideal of the freedom anew, in the current context. It deals with replaying history once again, imitating and referring to the symbol of revolution with our primitive devices thus bringing to one’s senses the urge and the possibility for such freedom to be experienced, to liberate ourselves in terms of form and content from the meaning of the context and to create our own tools in construction of the personal identity. Freedom is as it is, not the way we think it is! Don’t stare so romantically!

Blagojce Naumoski - Bane, finalist DENES Award, 2011

IN – OUT – ILUMINATION

“Life begets life. Energy creates energy.” (Sarah Bernhardt) The Universe is just energy, condensed in slow vibration, and we are all one conscience that we experience subjectively. In the first part of the solution I speak for two forms of energy proto - mordial and transcendental energies that are application of the source of energy in practice from the basis of which energy is extracted. What we bear in ourselves, what I call in my project solution a “transcendental energy” of our very being, and what is constantly perceived from the outside, that energy I call proto - mordial (it can also be any other energy around us), is transcendentalism of our being expressed via its energy, carrying it within and emitting it without while introducing a symbiosis with proto - mordiality of reality, that is its energy. In the second part I implied the problem of energy but now in a completely different medium, by expanding the concept of energy with the point of view of Eastern mystics so that in one segment of the solution, the issue is about a spiritual flow of energy and the energy field surrounding every person, place and body, while in another, experimenting in modern physics in both parts is expressed via drawing. I came to a more different notion of the unbreakable whole in which “that” idea of energy surrounding us is challenged, which can be analysed on the parts that exist independently of each other. The whole process is aided by energy structures that show how the spirit can move freely; how spiritual perceptions are coming all by themselves, without any effort, how they emerge from the depth of conscience thus resulting with culmination of an illumination.

Eli Ainoska-Hristovska, finalist DENES Award, 2011

”In God We Trust”

The work “In God We Trust” is part of the cycle “o’tempora, o’mores’, which is an exploring project showing the earthly paradox issues. The new reality is shown through a progressive thought that is finding a new way of expression and whose task belongs by discussions, debates (polemics), works… i.e. showing the results of the newly created “problems” in any way – the absurd issues we shut our eyes in front of. Few questions are present, mainly referring on who do we pray to, who is our God, does God turn our wishes, desires, prays into reality, or whether all that is going to be fulfilled if we simply just own it – the money. And thus is the match: God = money, money = God. There is no solution. It only remains to add upon Didro who set questions but found no answers. He noticed the difference between the art work and the immediate reality, realizing that the art work created by the reality’s production sets only series of questions.