The painter Aleksandar V. Nasteski marks 50 years of art

With an exhibition at the Art Gallery in Tetovo, which will be opened on October 20, at 18 pm, the painter Aleksandar V. Nasteski will mark 50 years of art.

The academic painter Alexander V. Nasteski was born in 1948 in the village of Zubovce, Gostivar region. He graduated from the Pedagogical Academy in Skopje in 1968, and graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade (Serbia) in 1977. He has been a member of DLUM since 1977, and is also a member of the Association of Fine Artists of Tetovo. So far, he has realized 33 solo exhibitions in the country and abroad. He has had international exhibitions abroad in Paris and Cannes-sur-Mer in France and in Capo di Ponte in Italy.

He also participated in the International Symposium on Rock Art "Valkamonika" in Capo di Ponte in Italy in 2011 with his work and exhibition, and in 2013 with his work, while in 2018 he participated in the Congress of IFRAO (International Federation for rock art) with his own work. He had his first exhibition at the Art Gallery in Tetovo, where he will exhibit again in honor of the creative jubilee.

It was important for me to paint, to fill the years with creativity

- I had my first solo exhibition in this gallery back in 1971, two years after graduating from the Pedagogical Academy in Skopje and with the money from those paintings I went to Paris to see the center of world art and to learn something. Then I spent another five years at the Academy in Belgrade teaching a little more. And then the exhibitions in the country and abroad lined up, but the years lined up, and so I slowly reached my jubilee 50 years of art, and again with an exhibition at the Art Gallery in Tetovo! It was important for me to paint, to fill the years with creativity, and my fellow citizens helped me the most, for which I am very grateful - says Alexander V. Nasteski.

He dedicated his first work to the city of Tetovo, painting its picturesque streets, the neighborhoods Dva Bresta and Koltuk, Tetovo weddings and gates, as well as landscapes of the magnificent Shara. He began the second cycle with miniatures, which were in fact small-format paintings with themes from mythology, history and erotica, which later grew into large-format paintings with which he participated in two exhibitions in Paris and Cannes-sur-Mer in France. Then he started to create paintings with an engaged mix and with historical, cultural and psychological contents, with expressively shaped characters and forms and with great dynamism in the composition.

Many of the paintings of Alexander V. Nasteski has historical, cultural and psychological content, with expressively shaped characters and forms and with great dynamism in the composition

- These pictures show our cruel, unjust and distressed world, the cry of Nature, Man and Life filled with wars, diseases, pandemics, famine, poverty, destruction, pollution of the Earth, but also with my disobedience to such reality. Around 2016 I got acquainted with the ancient myths about the origin of the world, as well as the ancient Macedonian painting from the royal tombs in Pella and Kutles, which left a deep impression on me and became my inspiration in my latest paintings - a cycle I called "Macedonia - Era on the wells - Menads ". At the same time, I found incredible prehistoric engravings with a large star and a number of smaller stars around it - a real starry sky, and a dome to the left and right, as symbols of the Sun and the Moon. These engravings tell us that our prehistoric ancestors stared at the sky and watched in awe that uninterrupted day and night spectacle and turned to the sky in the hope that the Stars, Sun, and Moon from which they received the light and warmth necessary for their survival would always be here. - reveals Nasteski.

His paintings are an attempt to present in their own way the incredible, incomprehensible epic power of the Universe and Nature in its creation, cataclysmic self-destruction and re-creation, which to the human mind is probably not even close to comprehensible, but is ubiquitous in all known and, for us, the unknown Universe.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 101, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on October 16-17, 2021)

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