Skopska Street
April 2007
Exhibited in: press to exit project space and Open Graphic Art Studio – Museum of the City of Skopje.
Initiated by: Elena Veljanovska
Artists: Jasna Dimitrovska, Ivan Ivanovski, Ivan petrushevski, Jovan Petrushevski, Elena Stojanova, Ivica Dukovski, Ana Jakimska, Goce Eftimov, Aleksandar Ivanovski, Aleksandar Mijalkovik, none!, Slobodan Jakoski, Zlatko Parmakoski, Dimitar Petrovski, Kiril Sentevski, Damjan Cvetkov- Dimitrov, Aleksandra Hristov, Emilija Trajkovska.
Curatorial team: Elena Veljanovska and Antonio Dimitrov (Line [I+M]), Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski (press to exit project space) and Atanas Botev (Open Graphic Art Studio – Museum of the City of Skopje).
The traces that these artists leave behind, working in public spaces, change the city’s countenance and the visual culture of its passers-by. Utilizing these spaces as their own, free of the rules and limitations of galleries, they make up their own protocol and their own development line. Thus, parallel galleries are created, with no lesser merits than spaces intended to promote current artistic outcomes. The city, in fact, transforms into an open gallery. The NMP authors have been, with different approaches, for three years leaving their marks all over real and virtual Skopje, precisely in such public areas. Group endeavours are more common to the younger generations, as alternatives to the already established social and aesthetic norms and criteria. NMP is a fusion of tendencies of a generation still building on its visual and audio articulation. The idea for this particular show originated from the need for timely follow-up and archiving of such changes, and the support aims to present this line of work to a larger audience. The common ground is precisely the exhibition, which is to take place on two different locations on the same day. Their respective positions and physical features impose different atmospheres, in which authors of diverse sensibilities are to be presented. They represent the two faces of the city, the real and the imaginary, and fuse together audio and visual experiences on both locations.
Artists: Jasna Dimitrovska, Ivan Ivanovski, Ivan petrushevski, Jovan Petrushevski, Elena Stojanova, Ivica Dukovski, Ana Jakimska, Goce Eftimov, Aleksandar Ivanovski, Aleksandar Mijalkovik, none!, Slobodan Jakoski, Zlatko Parmakoski, Dimitar Petrovski, Kiril Sentevski, Damjan Cvetkov- Dimitrov, Aleksandra Hristov, Emilija Trajkovska.
Curatorial team: Elena Veljanovska and Antonio Dimitrov (Line [I+M]), Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski (press to exit project space) and Atanas Botev (Open Graphic Art Studio – Museum of the City of Skopje).
The traces that these artists leave behind, working in public spaces, change the city’s countenance and the visual culture of its passers-by. Utilizing these spaces as their own, free of the rules and limitations of galleries, they make up their own protocol and their own development line. Thus, parallel galleries are created, with no lesser merits than spaces intended to promote current artistic outcomes. The city, in fact, transforms into an open gallery. The NMP authors have been, with different approaches, for three years leaving their marks all over real and virtual Skopje, precisely in such public areas. Group endeavours are more common to the younger generations, as alternatives to the already established social and aesthetic norms and criteria. NMP is a fusion of tendencies of a generation still building on its visual and audio articulation. The idea for this particular show originated from the need for timely follow-up and archiving of such changes, and the support aims to present this line of work to a larger audience. The common ground is precisely the exhibition, which is to take place on two different locations on the same day. Their respective positions and physical features impose different atmospheres, in which authors of diverse sensibilities are to be presented. They represent the two faces of the city, the real and the imaginary, and fuse together audio and visual experiences on both locations.