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| Zoran Poposki | |
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Digital expressionist artist (1974, MKD). MFA New Media (DUK University, Linz, Austria); 30+ international solo and group shows in USA, Germany, Austria, Italy, Turkey, Macedonia, etc. Featured in national TV programs, newspapers and magazines. |
| About the Artist | |
"Poposki's paintings are a form of refined lyricism... ". - M. Cankulovska, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje |
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Leon
2005 |
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| 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 |
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Goran
2005 |
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| 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 |
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Nenad
2005 |
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| 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 |
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Marko
2005 |
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| 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 |
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Iskra
2006 |
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| 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 |
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Toni
2005 |
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| Digital print (limited edition, signed). In technical terms, Zoran Poposki’s latest individual exhibition represents a move beyond his former mode of expression, based exclusively on oils (acrylics) on canvas, into a new kind of media for him – digital prints. The production process of his 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 |
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Zoran (Self-portrait)
2005 |
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| 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 |
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Marija
2006 |
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Political consensus is key to EU Integration
2008 |
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| 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. |
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14 killed in Iraq
2008 |
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| 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. |
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Antidote to nationalism
2008 |
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| 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. |
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Macedonia clash leaves two dead
2008 |
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| 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. |
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The name issue
2008 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 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 |
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| Future shows | |
| Jun 2009 DLUM, Skopje, Macedonia Jul 2009 National Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria Sep 2009 Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenija Dec 2009 Laznia Contemporary Art Centre, Gdansk, Poland |
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| Website: www.poposki.info | |
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