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Zoran Poposki
 
 
About the Artist

"Poposki's paintings are a form of refined lyricism... ". - M. Cankulovska, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje
"...an unexpectedly passionate approach to painting" - M. Bocvarova Plaveska, senior curator, MOCA Skopje

 
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Leon

2005
digital print
98x200

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’. - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Goran

2005
digital print
90x200

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’. - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Nenad

2005
digital print
100x137

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’. - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Marko

2005
digital print
57x90 cm

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’. - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Iskra

2006
digital print
90x130

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’. - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Toni

2005
digital print
100x162

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’." - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Zoran (Self-portrait)

2005
digital print
97x200

Digital print (limited edition, signed). "The production process of Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts with the photographs of his friends (whose names give the titles of the works) who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. According to the author, the title of the exhibition – HUSH, should be read in terms of Lacan’s ‘muteness’, that is the inability to express something, whereas the randomly chosen sentences, which don’t correspond to their life situations but at the same time strangely correspond to them, tell us something about them after all. The interpretation of these sentences leads us to an entirely different, quasi-serious extreme, even to a psychoanalytical approach in our attempt at perceiving each person and its ‘statement’. - Maja Cankulovska, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje

Marija

2006
digital print
98 x 200

Political consensus is key to EU Integration

2008
digital print
98x200 cm

Political consensus is key to EU Integration
This series of digital prints for billboards draws upon a wide array of artistic strategies traditionally used by abstraction (the liberating power of randomness, chaos, gestures), while at the same time recontextualizing them and translating them into the language of new media. The starting point in the process is the media, i.e. news coverage of national and global political issues. In this case, the process starts with a news story about the political dialogue in Macedonia, under the headline Political consensus holds key to European integration. In the contemporary, digital version of the aleatory principle, the headline is searched in Google Images, and the search results thus obtained serve as raw material which is later digitally edited.

14 killed in Iraq

2008
digital print
98 x 200 cm

14 killed in Iraq
This series of digital prints for billboards draws upon a wide array of artistic strategies traditionally used by abstraction (the liberating power of randomness, chaos, gestures), while at the same time recontextualizing them and translating them into the language of new media. The starting point in the process is the media, i.e. news coverage of national and global political issues. In the contemporary, digital version of the aleatory principle, the headline is searched in Google Images, and the search results thus obtained serve as raw material which is later digitally edited. Work #2 in the series started with the news story entitled At least 14 killed in separate attacks in Iraq, of 17 December 2007. The search of the title through Google Images returned some 2,500 results, including photographs of George Bush, 9/11, soldiers, weapons, maps, Slavoj Žižek, etc.

Antidote to nationalism

2008
digital print
98x167 cm

Antidote to nationalism
This series of digital prints for billboards draws upon a wide array of artistic strategies traditionally used by abstraction (the liberating power of randomness, chaos, gestures), while at the same time recontextualizing them and translating them into the language of new media. The starting point in the process is the media, i.e. news coverage of national and global political issues. In the contemporary, digital version of the aleatory principle, the headline is searched in Google Images, and the search results thus obtained serve as raw material which is later digitally edited.

Macedonia clash leaves two dead

2008
digital print
98 x 200 cm

Macedonia clash leaves two dead
Work #4 started with a BBC News story about the recent security problems in Macedonia, entitled Macedonia clash leaves two dead (BBC News, 10 Sep 2007). The Google Images search of the headline returned some 50 images (see screenshot), including maps (surprisingly mostly of Iraq), soldiers, ABBA, Aristotle, Abraham Lincoln, fighter jets, parrots, and soccer.

The name issue

2008
digital print
98 x 200 cm

The name issue
Work #5, entitled “The name issue (Greece and Macedonia to restart talks on name)” had its beginnings in a New York Times article of 6 Dec 2007 about the ongoing dispute between Greece and Macedonia regarding how the latter country should call itself, under the headline Greece and Macedonia to Restart Talks on Name. The Google Images search of the headline returned 177 results.
 
Education and biography
Selected solo exhibitions:
2008 Tocka Gallery Skopje
2007 Il Ramo D'oro, Napoli
2007 National Gallery, Skopje
2006 Cultural Center, Ohrid
2005 Tocka Gallery Skopje
2004 Cultural Center Prilep
2003 Tocka Gallery Skopje

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2009 Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenija
2009 National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
2009 City Museum, Skopje
2009 Museum for Contemporary Art, Skopje
2008 City Museum, Skopje
2008 OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria (MFA exhibition)
2008 Ohio University Art Gallery, Athens, USA
2008 3. Kargart Uluslararası Video Festivali, Istanbul, Turkey
2008 South Seattle Community College Art Gallery, Seattle, USA
2008 WOOLOO, Berlin
2006 Alpan International, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, New York (Juror: Prof. DONALD KUSPIT, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
2006 School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York

Education: MFA New Media, Donau Universitat Krems, Austria

Residencies:
2006 School of Visual Arts, New York
 
Future shows
Nov 2009 DLUM, Skopje, Macedonia
Dec 2009 City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
Dec 2009 Laznia Contemporary Art Centre, Gdansk, Poland
 
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