Macedonian visual artist Marija Pavlovska is invited to participate in the project "13. Calligraphy: Characters and Paintings ", realized at the University of Bologna, Italy, and curated by Ki Luo from the University of Art of China. Besides Pavlovska, seven international artists are participating in the project, such as Sok Khmer Pa (Thailand), Gabriele Amadori (Italy), Eugene Lemay (USA / born Israel), Fernando Augiar (Portugal), Chi Lu (China), Leon Radegonde (Seychelles) ) and Silvio Ferragina (Italy).

Pavlovska's participation in the project and its presentation in Bologna is primarily the result of her drawing cycles 2005-2015, published in the monograph "Reaction", published by the Drawing Rooms Gallery in New York, where the review was written by James Pastorino , director of the gallery.

- Drawing, like poetry, can convey the immeasurable depth of our thoughts, emotions and experience through language that is often most accurate when expressed in its most abstract form. Marija Pavlovska's drawings and works include this language, exploring the full spectrum of her inner life, even as her line and brush explore from the sensitive to the explosive, from freedom to order. Pavlovska's work carries the same intense, honest, dedicated focus that is so clearly visible in her personality. She has developed the ability to communicate deeply through the pure linear, textual and gestural movements that make up her images. The accentuated energy of her artwork seems spontaneous, but it is actually the result of thoughtful study, accumulation of activities, and responses that occur within the work over a period of time. Canvas or a series of drawings can take months to fully realize and carry that concentration of thought and action. These cycles of small drawings are notes for themselves, put on paper for a period of ten years. They have intimate power; she will often call them - diaries. Specific without display, they are images that can be read and appreciated over time, something that a person wants to keep close and call again and again. Just as sonnets or song cycles create strings of a poetic image, each drawing here is added to the next as bread on a chain or part of a story, a page in a book. For this book, it can be said that it completes these collected drawings, arranging them in a format that allows such appreciation and become part of its process. Created throughout the decade of Maria's shift from her native Macedonia to establish herself as an artist in the United States, they embody her personal struggles and aspirations. As Maria continues to attract the attention of her fellow artists and curators and gallery owners in the New York area, she remains very faithful to her heritage, upbringing and her unique artistic direction - wrote Pastorino.

(The text was published in "Cultural Press" number 77, in the print edition of "Free Press" on April 17-18, 2021)