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Zoran Poposki

 
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nenad, 2005, c-print, 100x137 cm
   
"Zoran Poposki's latest series of ‘expressive portraits’ starts 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."

Maja Cankulovska, curator, Museum of Contemporary Art - Skopje
   

Zoran Poposki

1974 born in Skopje, Macedonia

Lives and works in Skopje, Macedonia

Education

DUK University, Linz, Austria
(working towards an MFA in New Media)

Residencies:
2006 - School of Visual Arts, New York

Grants

National Fellowship for Talented Young Artists awarded by the Macedonian Ministry of Culture 2006/2007

Solo Exhibitions

• 2007 - The Border, Tocka Skopje
• 2007 Apr - Il Ramo D'Oro, Napoli
• 2007 - National Gallery Multimedia Centre Mala Stanica, Skopje
• 2006 - Cultural Center Grigor Prlicev, Ohrid
• 2006 - Gallery twenty-four, Berlin
• 2006 - Gallery twenty-four, Paris
• 2005 - Hush, Tocka Gallery Skopje
• 2004 - Solar, Cultural Center Prilep
• 2003 - Journey of Desire, Tocka Gallery Skopje

Group Exhibitions

• 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
• 2006 Sommerwende International Arts Festival, Berlin

Collections

Permanent installations:
Opto International, Skopje

Bibliography

• Manevska, Emilija. “Digitalni grafiki so politicka konotacija”, Dnevnik Vikend, 24 Mar 2007, 10
• Galevski, Vlatko. „Izlozba: Zoran Poposki“, Forum plus, 16 Mar 2007, 40-41
• “Digitalni grafiki od Poposki”, Dnevnik, 7 Mar 2007, 19
• „Portreti na Zoran Poposki vo novi tehnologii“, Vest, 6 Mar 2007, 16
• “Digitalni grafiki na Poposki”, Nova Makedonija, 6 Mar 2007
• "Grafiki na Zoran Poposki”, Vreme, 6 Mar 2007, 21
• „Mala Stanica – Exhibition of Zoran Poposki”, Culture in MK, 6 Mar 2007
• “Digitalni grafiki na Zoran Poposki”, Makfax, 5 Mar 2007
• “Izložba na Zoran Poposki vo Ohrid“, Makfax, 7 Dec 2006
• “Zoran Poposki izložuva vo Berlin”, Dnevnik, 28 Nov 2006, 19
• “Affirmation: Exhibition of Zoran Poposki in Berlin”, Culture in MK, 22 Nov 2006
• “Izlozba na Zoran Poposki vo Berlin”, Vreme, 22 Nov 2006
• Bakalova, M. “Dobri kritiki, no skap vlog”. Forum plus, 9 Sept 2006, 55
• “Zoran Poposki izložuva vo SAD”, Špic, 2-3 Sept 2006, 13
• “Exhibition in the US – Zoran Poposki exhibits with 24 world artists”, Culture in MK, 2 Sept 2006
• “Zoran Poposki megju 24 umetnici od svetot”, Vreme, 1 Sept 2006, 21
• “May 2006 Digital Color Artist of the Month”, DCN 80, May 2006
• “Zoran Poposki”, Mimosaextra, II-06, April 2006
• Bakalova, Meri. “Virtuelni art-galerii”. Forum plus, 11 March 2006, 52-53
• “Digitalni otpečatoci od Zoran Poposki”, Dnevnik, 28 January 2005, 17
• “Samostojna izlozba ‘Molk’na Zoran Poposki”, Makedonija denes, 27 January 2005, 21
• “Izrazni portreti na Zoran Poposki”, Vreme, 27 January 2005, 20
• „Molk – izložba na Zoran Poposki”, Utrinski vesnik, 27 January 2005, 26
• “Zoran Poposki with HUSH in Tocka”, Kontrapunkt, 27 Jan 2005
• “Sliki od Zoran Poposki”, Dnevnik, 23 May 2003, 15
• “Vo Tocka sliki na Zoran Poposki”, Vest, 23 May 2003, 17
• “Patot na kopnežot na Zoran Poposki”, Utrinski vesnik, 23 May 2003
• “Apstrakcii na Zoran Poposki”, Makedonija denes, 23 May 2003, 13
• “Izložba na Zoran Poposki”, Nova Makedonija, 23 May 2003, 5

Links

www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/b/blumzberi/

   

Zoran Poposki

Nikola Tesla 2/1-56
1000 Skopje
Macedonia

zoranpoposki@gmail.com
www.absolutearts.com/portfolios/b/blumzberi/




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