Search for the lost spirituality with the paintings of Vladimir Georgievski in the Museum of the City of Skopje

A grandiose exhibition with a hundred works by the painter Vladimir Georgievski has been set up in the Museum of the City of Skopje, and its opening on December 7 attracted a huge number of art lovers.

Extraordinary works of one of the most important Macedonian fine artists - Vladimir Georgievski (1942-2017) are placed in the entire available gallery space of the Museum of the City of Skopje. The exhibition consists of a hundred works of the artist made in the art techniques of oil on canvas, tempera, pastel, ink, colored pencil and watercolor.

- Vladimir Georgievski's work resists all attempts to classify and systematize it. Any attempt to arrange them in chronological order fails because of the painter's idea of ​​the timelessness of the works. Most of the works are undated; one and the same motif has been worked several times in different periods of time and in various painting techniques; images are processed and refined in an attempt to find the best of all possible models…

In painting he starts from his ontological foundations. He is in search of lost spirituality in a world that has long given over to superficial pleasures and enslavement to the body and carnality. Against fashion styles and trends, against false mysticism, commercialization; against prejudices, imposed insignificant topics, triviality in art, posing, manipulations with the audience; against art as daily politics, art with a tendency, art as a function of ideology as a justification of the existing social discourse, as propaganda, as a reflection of an imagined reality, as a projection of that reality, as a fair deception or as an illusionistic representation – he returns to the art that is in function of discovering the truth - wrote Emil Alexiev in the catalog on the occasion of the exhibition.

Panche Velkov, Frosina Georgievska and Vlatko Korobar addressed the opening of the exhibition on December 7.

Vladimir Georgievski was born in 1942 in Skopje. In 1963 he graduated from the School of Applied Arts in Skopje. In the same year, he began his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Belgrade, where he graduated in 1968. He completed his postgraduate studies at the same academy, in the class of professor Mladen Srbinović.

After returning from Belgrade in 1972, he headed the art department at the Youth Cultural Center (then "25 May" Youth House). Between 1980 and 2012 he was a professor of drawing, painting and plastic modeling at the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. For a decade in the 1990s, he also taught aesthetics of space, history of modern art, and scenography at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Skopje. His scenographic and costuming solutions were part of numerous theater performances and several domestic feature films. He left behind a precious treasury of artistic wealth.

The exhibition in the Museum of the City of Skopje is realized with the financial support of the City of Skopje in cooperation with the legates of the artist. The curator of the exhibition is Emil Alexiev.

An extensive monograph on the work of Vladimir Georgievski has been prepared for the exhibition (Publisher: Museum of the City of Skopje; author: Emil Aleksiev; text: Emil Aleksiev and Nikola Pijanmanov). The exhibition can be visited until January 31, 2023.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 158, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on December 10-11, 2022)

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