MARIOVO MAPPING
An Art Exhibition - SCS Centar-Jadro, Skopje, N. Macedonia
8 - 25 December 2020
On November 8th 2020, at the SCS Center Jadro, Skopje , was opened the exhibition "Mariovo Mapping" By the artists Jasmina Runevska Todorovska, Nela Todorovska, Dorotej Neshovski and Darko Taleski. The exhibition itself is part of the program of the Ministry of Culture of the N.Macedonia.
As a follow-up to "Maps from Krushevo" which was realized in October 2018, by the artists: Darko Taleski, Jasmina Runevska Todorovska and Emil Soleski, the idea for this expanded transdisciplinary project "Maps from Mariovo" appeared. The idea for the realization of this project is to re-actualize these forgotten places throughout Macedonia because exactly these geographical points are full of unheard stories, hidden natural beauties and a long-standing tradition.
Subjective mapping is the creation of maps that show the more personal perception or perspective of the places / space around us through different experiences and experiences of each individual, as opposed to the objective description and presentation of reality that we are used to measuring daily on geographical, historical (...) maps. Subjective mapping is an alternative attempt that tells and reactivates the stories of a home, the memories preserved in objects, words, architecture, and nature.
Through research through the Mariovo villages Polchishte and Vitolishte, using different techniques, the artists: Darko Taleski (visual artist), Nela Todorovska (fashion designer), Dorotej Neshovski (interdisciplinary artist) and Jasmina Runevska Todorovska (site-specific artist) created audio-visual maps of sounds, smells, feelings, stories, myths, memories, objects. The artists introduced themselves under the name POVID - a type of ivy that spreads very quickly and attacks and eats abandoned houses in Mariovo.
ARE YOU AN IMMIGRANT TO ?
Art Exhibition - Macedonian Culture and Info Center in Istanbul, Turkey
16 - 22 November 2020
On November 16th 2020, at the Cultural and Information Center of the Republic of Northern Macedonia in Istanbul, was opened the exhibition "Whether you are a migrant?" By the artist Darko Taleski. The exhibition itself is part of the program of the Ministry of Culture of the N.Macedonia and represents five thematic works about migration from native land to somewhere and covers the individual destinies of migrants over the past hundred years.
The five posters of Darko Taleski tell individual stories through the digital code of the works, with the help of the augmented reality visitors could watch artists' view of migration during the Balkan wars, the civil war in Greece, the Yugoslav-Turkish treaty of the fifties of the last century, including two emigrant contemporary stories of an artist and art historian from Prilep.
Of course, Taleski's work is socially committed to the intention to change something for the better in the life of modern man, and of course to depict the emotional state of those who inspired him. In the last three years, the exhibition has been set in three countries that are part of the stories. In Macedonia, Bulgaria and Turkey. Taleski's intention for the exhibition is to be set in the other two countries, the United States and Germany, which are also part of the stories.
The event was opened by the director of Culture Center, Mr. Ramadan Ramadani.
Read more about the project....
ART SOCIATY PRILEP ANUAL EXHIBITION 2020
City Culture Center - Marko Cepenkov, Prilep, North Macedonia
25 September - 09 October 2020
On September 25th 2020 in the art gallery of the Center of Culture in Prilep was opened the annual exhibition of works by the members of the Art Association of city of Prilep (DLUP) 21 artists were presented with their works. Part of the exhibition were the two art doyens Vasil Kostov and Kiril Gegoski.
Darko Taleski is representing his painting "Whose work is this?"
The title of the work is a question to the viewer but at the same time a question that the artist asks himself.
The process of creating a work of art is an art movement that appears in the mid-1960s in the United States and Europe, where the focus is not on the end result, but on the process of creating the work of art. The artists of this movement see art as a pure human expression and advocate the idea that the process of creating a work of art can be a work of art in itself.
This work in that process adds the interaction, thoughtful and tactile, with the other to create the work, as a symbiosis in the process of expression. Hence the questions:
Whose work is this?
Can the work be a thought process transmitted to the other and through the other materialized in color, form, composition, etc.?
ART vs COVID-19
Gibraltar Fine Art Gallery in collaboration with MASA-UK Gallery
15 - 26 July 2020
MASA-UK Art Gallery from Bury, Manchester in collaboration with Ministry of Culture of Gibraltar created a project that shows how Art is bringing us together, make us stronger and resilient. Artists form Austria, Spain, Argentina, Gibraltar, UK, N. Macedonia agreed to get ready in a week or two to send their work and be part of the ART vs Cobvid-19 project. As a response to the way the virus strike the whole World. We have to fight together!
Darko Taleski is representing his painting "Composition 15" / Acrylic on canvas
