NEOMATERIAL EXPRESSIONS
NI Institute and Museum Bitola/NI Center for culture Marko Cepenkov, Prilep
23 - 30 September/18 November 2023
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.
MANCHESTER ART FAIR
The UK's Most Ambitious Art Fair
15 - 17 November 2023
Manchester Art Fair delivers a curated mix of acclaimed galleries and independent artists, blurring the boundaries between traditional and contemporary, creating a friendly, unpretentious and uniquely Northern art-buying experience.
Alongside is The Manchester Contemporary, a collegiate fair for young galleries, artist-led spaces, charitable organizations and partner institutions providing a critically engaged environment for artistic exploration and development.
Manchester Art Fair makes viewing and buying quality art accessible and enjoyable. Get swept up in the creativity, passion and vibrancy of Manchester Art Fair on 15-17 November 2023.
Sever art works, painting of the artist Darko Taleski are presented by the MASA - UK Independent art Gallery established since 2013 showcasing and selling original art in Bury, Lancashire
MASA-UK Art Gallery is a small, family-owned, independent art gallery. Specializing in showcasing original art work and inspiring customers to invest in originals and support local artists. A wide variety of contemporary visual art by carefully selected renowned and emerging local and International artists can be found at the Gallery.
BELOW ZERO
NI Center for Culture, Marko Cepenkov, Prilep
17 - 30 November 2023
"Below zero" is a multimedia project in which 14 Prilep artists explore the problems and solutions related to climate change and warming. The artists exhibited their works: Anita Joveska, Atanas Atanasoski, Bojana Artinovska, Victoria Dimeska, David Atanasoski, Darko Taleski, Elena Dimoska - Nikoloska, Maja Raleva - Miladinovski, Marjan Stojanoski, Metodi Iskov, Filip Joveski, Filip Pereski, Hristina Mazneska and Hristian Nashulovski.
- The project combines admiration for the grandeur and mystery of nature with modern concepts of sustainable development and environmental protection from global warming. Artists using numerous drawing and painting, traditional, combined and experimental techniques, as well as applied new practices in sculpture, convey a powerful visual message - take care and act today, for a boundless and clean future. The exhibition was curated and organized by the art curator Viktorija Dimeska.
ANNUAL EXHIBITION SOCIETY OF FINE ARTISTS OF THE CITY OF PRILEP
11 - 25 October 2023
NI Center for Culture, Marko Cepenkov, Prilep, North Macedonia
"Creations of the night"
art inspired by dreams
1 - 14 September 2023
NI Center for Culture, Marko Cepenkov, Prilep, North Macedonia
Title: Drawing a Dream
Technique: Black ink on transparent paper
Dimensions: 100 x 70 cm
The art work invites the viewer to explore the space between reality and what is a dream, a glimpse into the artist's subconscious suspended between materiality and the immaterial world.
The drawing is not shown in a conventional way ie. it is wrapped behind a veil of transparent white fabric, backlit, transforming it into something more than just a drawing on paper, creating an enigmatic aura, an essence that floats between the world of the real and the surreal.
The effect of deliberate blurring aims to place the viewer in a position of thinking about the boundary that separates the tangible from the intangible. In the work, lines and shapes merge and mix, which fold and take shape, similar to the way dreams evade definition and understanding. It is an artistic experiment that invites the viewer to explore the fragility of our perceptions, encouraging them to question the nature of reality itself. It invites you to step outside the boundaries of the material world and dive into the surreal, where the contours of the everyday blur into the infinite possibilities of the world of dreams. It is an invitation to embrace the ambiguity, uncertainty, and enchantment that lie at the intersection of the known and the unknown.