Tonight, the first solo exhibition of the artist will open at the Taftalidze buffet in Skopje. Aleksandar V. Branković, who is a native of Skopje, but lives and works in Belgrade. At the exhibition titled "Lost Constructions", Branković presents his unique ability to combine philosophical reflection with aesthetic provocation, in an alternative exhibition space. On this occasion, the artist Branković and the organizer of the exhibition and owner of the buffet "Taftalidze", Saša Šotarovski - Šote, were guests at the studio of "Sloboden Pečat".

– This opus of drawings that I draw has been going on for a long time. At one point, I worked on them in the form of stamps, date stamps, changing the dates, and now, as the conditions of postmodern life change, I don’t have time to be in the studio from morning to night, so I work on them on the go, on my knees, in public transport, on the bus… I draw those little people and then collage them, put them together. And with the name of the exhibition “Lost Constructions”, I followed up a little on a French essayist, who wrote exactly about those “non-places”, where people will lose their identity at one point and that is inevitable. States will be lost and we will merge into one large corporate society, which is what this modern world is striving for. Here we have already entered those algorithms of augmented reality and the end of internet neutrality, if people haven’t noticed, we are already slowly entering a dystopian society. And that is simply that lost construction, a name that imposed itself, because we have all entered that one-dimensional social identity, that is, there is no longer a diagonal - says Branković.

As the artist Branković himself says, he increasingly wants to exhibit in alternative spaces, because classic galleries seem sterile to him. That is why he accepted the offer to exhibit his works at the Taftalidze buffet without hesitation. Shotevski, on the other hand, is always willing to give a chance and give his place to young artists, always at his own expense.

– I have a past, when I managed the “Gallery 8” shop in the bazaar, and there we did over 100 exhibitions of serious painters. For me, it is an escape from everyday life, to make something interesting for myself. I am very glad that mostly young painters come, unestablished, so we try to help them get out of that vicious circle. We are trying to do something different and I must emphasize that we do all this without anyone's help, literally with our own money and our own resources. Unfortunately, we in Skopje, in Macedonia, have 5 or 6 painters who live from painting. Here, I will list them, Miro Masin, Milan Andov, Kachev, Kashavelski… sorry if I forgot anyone, I must have forgotten, but those are two more – says Shotarovski.