The leading representative of surrealism, fantastic painting, environmental and cosmic themes in the Macedonian fine arts, academician Vasko Tashkovski, with all creative phases is presented at a retrospective exhibition, which opens on October 21 at the Daut Pasha Amam at the National Gallery.

According to most contemporaries, Vasko Tashkovski's contribution to contemporary Macedonian art at the very beginning of his work is emphasized by following his own quiet and unobtrusive artistic path, which enabled him to most appropriately transcribe the author's manuscript continuously to this day through painting that is classical according to his plastic structure, and at the same time surrealistically fantastic in a poetic sense, with a precise meticulous drawing and a lavishly tonal palette.

In particular, the exceptionalism, ie the separation of his multifaceted work for itself, but also in the specific historical environment, is seen in the persistent research of these surreal fantastic visions as a constant challenge, a commitment that is constantly updated with new themes through which it is recognizable as a unique painting. phenomenon in contemporary Macedonian painting.

Moving from the original associative surreal mysterious landscapes that are dehumanized, conceived as metaphysical desolation after catastrophe, it turns into science-fiction multifaceted cosmic mysteries of the psychological subconscious, and the obsession with the near and distant past with the past and the future the desolation and the landscape, that is, its engaged relationship and influence on nature.

Vasko Tashkovski's painting vision focuses on human outings in space, daydreaming and vision, escape from neurotic times in imaginary three-dimensional landscapes, often with a wide open horizon with sky and earth in the background, while ruin-like structures are placed in the foreground. , floating exotic vegetation oases, in combination with biologically-mechanized mechanical structures - points out the curator of the exhibition Maja куankulovska-Mihajlovska, senior curator at the National Gallery.

The author transforms the influences and reflections from Surrealism and Fantasy into his autochthonous language with specific elements presented through several art disciplines: painting, watercolor and drawing, with an impressive number of works - about 1.000 paintings in oil technique, over 3.500 watercolors, over 1.000 watercolors , as well as graphics, scenography and over 12.000 daily disciplined conceptual sketches.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" No. 102, in the print edition of the newspaper "Free Press" on October 23-24, 2021)