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Exhibition "Four female artists - four views"in
Strumica
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Friday, 09.07.2004. at 20.30. in the
Art Galery at the Cultural Centre in Strumica, Kontrapunkt and
Cultural Centre Strumica will held an exhibition. |
The
exhibition "Four female artists - for view" would present Natasha
Andonova, Gordana Vrencoska, Emilija Bozinovska and Irena Paskali
(under the curatorship of Maja Cankulovska).
The exhibition "Four female artists - for view" would present several
art works by each artist, as a selection from their exhibitions in
Tocka as a part of the Confluent Margins project.
The four artists differ by their expression (Natasha Andonova -
drawings, Gordana Vrencoska, paintings, Emilija Bozinovska - collages,
Irena Paskali - video) and by the problems they treat thus having
different plce in the contemporary art production.
Natasha Andonova and Emilija Bozinovska treat the "pure" art problems
and they go back to the "old" techniques. Natasha Andonova presents
only figuration. She uses long time known motifs: still life,
self-portrait, nude and landscape. Drawings are made in a period of
several years and usually are made in small dimensions, or in explicit
big dimensions. She creates the drawing with fast action in a form of
a sketch where certain parts of the body or the face are emphasized -
expression mostly represented in female nudes.
"Peculiar Forest - second part" presents collages made of standard
colored paper, a material which stimulates spontanity of expresion and
through which fragments of the trees originate. The material offers
endless opportunities for "childrens' games of improvisation", and in
turn helps achieve simple visual solutions. Single-coloured (sometimes
shiny) paper fragments are mounted on top of the monochrome plain, in
order to achive the final effect of a dynamic colourful / decorative
structure.
Contrary to them, Gordana Vrencovska and Irena Paskali treat social
and political themes.
The crucial element in the latest project of Gordana Vrencoska
"Correspondence" in communication - information exchange, as indicated
in the title. Hereby, the correspondence, displayed in several parts
(rooms), is observed through its negative aspect, as a strictly
business process without any dialogue, as a linear emission of
information. Unlike the previous projects, where personal questions
are targeted, the author takes the role of a catalyst for the
collective messaging. This presentation is based on quotations,
editing, collage, simulation; abundant in subordinate objects-symbols,
iconic and par-iconic signs and metaphoric, and the highlighted
pop-artistic formal solutions (assemblage, ready-made) are acting as
critic of the consumer-ism.
Irena
Paskali video "At this bottom" is short documentary story about
absurdity of mutual (in)tolerance and (un)acceptability of two
religions that are geographically determinated. The eternal conflict
of culturological differences is shown on the video, and trough
documentary recordings of events from (and around) 2001 similarities
are shown: similarities in rituals, in celebration of big religious
celebrations, but also similarities in mutual destruction and
suffering. In the case of "At this bottom", the story marks the actual
social changes and its influence on the subjects of this society. |
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