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"Collaging", exhibition by three authors

The exhibition "Collaging" is consisted by three segments representing three authors with different approach in the realization of their ideas. The objective of the exhibition is to show a combination of differences (alike collage technique), without stressing (or underestimating) the interests of only one author. Their only tie is that they have worked in the "Studentski Zbor" magazine. All three authors use the means of taking out the elements from an existing unit in a different ways, bringing into new unit, editing and creating a structure where the imported element takes new element, coming into relations with their elements and changing it's visual shape and meaning as a wholeness.  

The comics of Ivanka Apostolova correspond closest with the title of the exhibition, and she is one of the rare authors that deal with comics. She actively uses the collage technique in all her comics, thus creating cartoon tables with complex meanings and "extraordinary" format (in opposition to our habit of edited seeing). 

Igor Nastevski has created maybe the most inventious front pages of "Studentski Zbor". Through moving of the happenings, the existing ideological messages and fragments from everyday life in it's visual works (graphic design) gives his own commentaries of those happenings without fear even to comment on the daily political conditions.
Maybe the most classical of the three artists is Dragoljub Nikolovski. He uses the photographic medium in its "primal", pure form, without additional interventions. In that, his relations of interest are wide, so on this exhibition we can see photos that could be separated into: portraits, theatre, and life and concert photos.

biographies


Ivanka Apostolova
Ivanka Apostolova is born 1973 in Skopje. She studied on the Department of History of Art with Archeology. Since 2001 she has been living and working in Ljubljana, Slovenia. She draws comics since 1997. She has published in several Macedonian and Albanian comics magazines and fanzines. Since 2002 she runs a workshop for collage comics and strip jewelry in the School for applied art Famul Stuart - Ljubljana, Slovenia. 2001 she had her first solo comics exhibition on the 2.International Women Contemporary Art Festival, Ljubljana, Slovenija.She has participated on many group exhibitions in Ljubljana, Ravena, Zagreb, and on the exhibition "The Macedonian comics on the move"/comics in Lift" in different galleries in Strumica, Prilep, Gevgelija, Bitola.

Igor Nastevski
Igor Nastevski, born 1972 in Skopje. He has graduated on the Secondary School of Art, "Lazar Licenovski" in Skopje in 1991. He is about to finish his studies on the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, painting, in the class of professor Tanas Lulovski. He has worked as a graphic designer in "Studentski Zbor", "Tea Moderna" and in the agency "Idea Plus DDV".

Dragoljub Nikolovski
Dragoljub Nikolovski is a student of camera on the Faculty of Dramatic Arts. He works as a photographer and collaborates with many magazines.