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nenad, 2005, c-print, 100x137 cm

Triziana Tricarico, Review in the newspaper Il Mattino, Napoli:
"An explosive gestural energy, which wants to break out of the confines of the canvas, characterizes the works of Zoran Poposki, a Macedonian artists who, after New York, Berlin, and Paris, is having an exhibition in Italy. The series “Hush” comprises eight digital works (large-scale inkjet prints) of psychodelic chromatisms, which explore the interconnection between the visible and the written word. “In this project I am elaborating the idea of change – he explains – by combining digital photographs of my friends, pictorial elements, such as vibrant drops and lines of color, and inserted selected words." Utilizing a Dadaist technique, the photographed subjects were requested to randomly open a book and choose the first sentence they see. Words that acquire different meanings depending of the sensibility of the spectator. Sentences sometimes intentionally left unfinished to leave room for individual imagination to complete them."

Giorgio Agnisola, Critico d'arte, Italy:
“Poposki unleashes onto the canvas a gestural and abstract energy, tied to the evocation of color but also to the expressive techniques of the sign, in a multilayered construct out of which often emerge figurative forms, profiles that seem to be creating a sort of inner scenography. Still, in the creative stage it is exorcised through rational interventions, phrases, signs, thoughts, that the artist applies to the painting, provocatively, with the intent to demystify. That results in a visible ambiguity that evokes in the spectator a conscious and intensive analysis of the word and the image, in a space which is emotionally engaging while at the same time problematic, unknown in a way, yet encouraging.”

Maja Cankulovska, curator, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje:
"Zoran Poposki's ‘expressive portraits’ start with the photographs of his friends who, by means of a dadaist method of chance, randomly select sentences from works of trivial literature, and in turn that quote becomes their personal ‘statement’. The title of the series – 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’.
The author leaves ‘his personal mark’ by completing this whole with elements from his painting, such as the perception of space and color as a primary means of expression evident in his previous abstract expressionist oils and acrylics.
The calmness of the characters represented stands juxtaposed to the expressive colors and the ‘free’ expression, the references of which lie in abstract expressionism and action painting. At times one gets the impression that this dominant picturality is in conflict with the title of the exhibition. On the contrary, the expressiveness, ias an expression of inner spiritual and psychological states, contributes towards the realization of the need/necessity for the being to tell its own ‘story’, towards overcoming the barriers to free expression of emotions in a superficial world ruled by muteness."

Marika Bocvarova Plaveska, senior curator, Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje:
"...an unexpectedly passionate approach to painting"

Zoran Poposki

1974 born in Skopje, Macedonia

Lives and works in Skopje, Macedonia

Education

2008 MFA in New Media, Transart Institute NYC & DUK University, Linz, Austria
2006 School of Visual Arts, NYC - Division of Continuing Education

Grants

2009 Young Visual Artist Award DENES 09, Contemporary Art Center Skopje & Civil Society Foundation New York City, finalist
2009 iD+consonni Sondika 09, Spain – Special Mention/Z+E+M Collective
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje Best Young Artist Award, shortlisted
2009 Publication Grant (Monograph), Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia
2007/08 Foundation M Scholarship Award, Austria
2007 National Fellowship for Talented Young Artists, Ministry of Culture of R Macedonia

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia
2007 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia
2007 Il Ramo D’Oro – Napoli, Italy (with Michele D’Alterio)
2007 National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia
2006 Culture Center Ohrid, Macedonia
2005 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia
2004 Culture Center Prilep, Macedonia
2003 Tocka Culture Center Skopje, Macedonia

Group Exhibitions

2009 Center for Urban Culture Kino Siska & Photon Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2009 Museo de Arte de Ponce, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2009 Palace of Culture, Sofia, Bulgaria
2009 City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
2009 Kosovo Art Gallery, Prishtina, Kosovo
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje
2008 City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia
2008 OK Centrum für Gegenwartskunst, Linz, Austria
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 New Life Gallery, Berlin
2007 “30 Macedonian artists”, Culture Center Ohrid
2006 Alpan International, Alpan Gallery, Huntington, New York (Juror: Donald Kuspit, State University of New York at Stony Brook)
2006 School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York
2006 Multimedia Cultural Center Dialma Ruggiero, La Spezia, Italy

Projects

My work is transdisciplinary, combining digital prints, performance and video, and deals with issues of liminality and the constant shifting/ production of identity, territory, and public space.

Collections

Denmark, USA, Hong Kong

Bibliography

R. Z. “Ulici so iminja na obicnite lugje”, Nova Makedonija, 26 June 2009, p. 11.
K. B. “Jasna Kotevska – predlog za ime na skopska ulica”, Utrinski vesnik, 25 June 2009, p. 15.
Antevska, Kate. “Umetnicite ja iskritikuvaa drzavnata estetika”, Vreme, 24 June 2009, p. 21.
Bogoeva, Katerina. “Umetnicite povikuvaat – Gradot ubav pak ke nikne”, Utrinski vesnik, 26 May 2009, p. 17.
Bogoeva, Katerina. “Denes e važno kade ti e bazata”, Utrinski vesnik, 26 May 2009, p. 17.
Contemporary Art Center. Young Visual Artist Award YVAA DENES 2009. Skopje: CAC, 2009. (catalogue)
DLUM. 2009 Crtež i grafika. Skopje: DLUM, 2009. (catalogue)
Kosova Art Gallery. Identities. Prishtinë: Galeria e Arteve e Kosovës, 2009. (catalogue)
Museum of Contemporary Art. Biennial of Young Artists. Skopje: MSU, March 2009. (catalogue)
Veličkovski, Vladimir. “Svežo i veće videno”, Večer, 25 Feb 2009, p. 18.
Vaseva, Ivana. “Umetničkiot identitet pritisnat od globalizacijata”, Vreme, 18 Feb 2009, p. 21.
KIC/DLUM. Makedonsko likovno tvoreštvo: Mal format. Skopje: KIC/DLUM, January 2009. (catalogue)
DLUM. Godišna izložba DLUM 2008: Muzej na grad Skopje. Skopje: DLUM, December 2008. (catalogue)
Kontrapunkt. Apstraktna politika: Zoran Poposki. Skopje: Kontrapunkt, February 2008. (catalogue)
Tricarico, Tiziana. “L’esposizione: D’Alterio e Poposki sulla linea del confine”, Il Mattino, 17 Apr 2007, p. 35.
“Michele D’Alterio – Zoran Poposki – The Border”, Teknemedia, 14 Apr 2007.
“The Border: Michele D’Alterio and Zoran Poposki”, Contemporary Arts Review, 14 Apr 2007.
Agnisola, Giorgio. The Border:Michele D’Alterio/Zoran Poposki. Napoli: Il Ramo D’Oro Centro D’Arte e Cultura, 2007. (catalogue)
Manevska, Emilija. “Digitalni grafiki so politička konotacija”, Dnevnik Vikend, 24 Mar 2007, p. 10.
Galevski, Vlatko. „Izložba: Zoran Poposki“, Forum plus, 16 Mar 2007, p. 40-41.
“Što e novo?“, Skopje: Nacionalna galerija na Makedonija, March 2007.
Centar za kultura “Grigor Prličev”. Zoran Poposki: Izložba Molk. Ohrid: Centar za kultura, 2006. (catalogue)
Bakalova, M. “Dobri kritiki, no skap vlog”. Forum plus, 9 Sept 2006, p. 55.
Bakalova, Meri. “Virtuelni art-galerii”. Forum plus, 11 March 2006, p. 52-53.
“Zoran Poposki”, Mimosaextra, II-06, April 2006.
Čankulovska, Maja. Zoran Poposki: Molk. Skopje: Kontrapunkt, January-February 2005. (catalogue)
Back cover, Naše pismo, VII/50, June-Oct 2003.
Kontrapunkt. Zoran Poposki: Journey of Desire. Skopje: Kontrapunkt, May 2003. (catalogue)

Links

www.poposki.info
www.absolutearts.com/blumzberi/

Zoran Poposki

Nikola Tesla 2/1-56
1000 Skopje
Macedonia

zoranpoposki@gmail.com
www.poposki.info