ANNUAL EXHIBITION SOCIETY OF FINE ARTISTS OF THE CITY OF PRILEP
NI Center for Culture, Marko Cepenkov, Prilep, North Macedonia
02 - 16 November 2024
Annual exhibition of the Society of Fine Artists of the city of Prilep.
On the occasion of the liberation of the city of Prilep on November 3, as part of the program to mark this holiday, an exhibition of the members of the Society of Fine Artists of the city of Prilep was organized.
"Transformation of Drawing: From Form to Void"
"Drawing Transformation: From Form to Void" is a digital drawing that explores the transformation of the human figure and its simplification through frame-by-frame animation, symbolizing the path from complexity to basic essence. The work is inspired by a photograph by Ivan Pinkava, where the figure carries the bodily expression that becomes simpler and disintegrates until the moment the body disappears in one point – a symbol of birth, beginning, and final disappearance.
The animation begins with a male figure, formed by precise lines that depict its reality and materiality. With each new frame, the form changes, the lines become less defined and the figure transforms into an increasingly abstract, simple and minimalist form. At its final moment, the lines converge into a vanishing point, symbolizing the endless cycle of creation and dissolution, as well as the transition from the physical to the digital, from the material to the immaterial world.
This work is a continuation of the author's previous research, in which classical drawing is transformed and supplemented with digital animation to express the interaction between man and new media. The work shows the transition of drawing from classical form to digital animation, where the process of digitization represents not only a change in medium but also a transformation of meaning.
"The Transformation of Drawing: From Form to Void" prompts reflection on human identity, existence, and the way the digital world affects our understanding of materiality and immateriality. The animation, which is repeated in a loop, captures the continuous change of human existence, but also of artistic techniques and media in the digital age.
NEOMATERIAL EXPRESSIONS
Cultural information center of the Republic of North Macedonia in Zagreb, Croatia
24 June 2024
Exhibition of Bogdan Grabuloski Bonach, Violeta Blažeska, Sofia Grabuloska, Jasmina Runevska, Darko Taleski, Metodija Jordanoski and Mirjana Trompeska.
The authors of the exhibition combine materiality and the new post-digital materiality called immateriality, an expression introduced by Christiane Paul in 2015. The concept of neomateriality is proposed by Paul to describe the objectivity that includes networked digital technologies that embed, process and reflect human and environmental data, or reveal their own encoded materiality and the way digital processes see our world. Intangibility describes the embedding of the digital in the objects, images and structures we encounter every day and the way we understand ourselves in relation to them.
Neomaterialization, i.e. the cycle of materialization - digitalization - rematerialization in the exhibited works is conveyed through the interaction of the materiality and immateriality of the works created in traditional art techniques and their placement in interaction with digital interpretations.
At the exhibition, 5 pieces of drawings are presented, one work by each author, which were made with traditional art techniques and they were upgraded with the digital intervention on them. Computer engineer Mirjana Trompeska is involved in this process, who decodes the works of art, drawings, that is, using a computer program, separates the background code of each digital image from previously created drawings. These codes are placed in interaction with the materialized drawings creating an artistic intervention in the space.
The purpose of the exhibition is to convey to us the new reality in which we live and how it has an impact on artistic practice in the post-digital age, but at the same time to show the influence of digital devices on our perception of ourselves seen through digital devices.
