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From: Expressionism in Macedonian Painting (In the Context of Expressionism as Permanent Artistic Occurrence)


The two archetypes with Georgievski have also been precisely set: Expulsion from Heaven and Golgotha. The resolution of both archetypes is still on-going, and as a drama of the world sorrow, it has been set in the Great Inquisitor with Dostoyevsky, on why and who cancelled it, and in this way the expulsion and Golgotha of Christ. And why did those who had committed it – the people, then voluntarily entered the Golgotha path that is still on-going. If Dostoyevsky is only dark and nothing else, then Georgievski is also like that. However, it is not like that, with any of them. Man is conscious and he makes decisions. Dostoyevsky has told about his decision, and Georgievski has painted it. Quite identically, but with psychoanalysis style, this is also described by Jung. As artistic visions, thought metaphors, this are quite realistic stories and paintings by persons who use the same alphabet and words as all people, and with the same colors and lines and all people. But their order of words is special and this is where the secret of great spirits which in a short story, in a painting, touch upon all chapters of the life.

Georgievski’s expressionism cannot be defined in a specific template. However, he has his features which mark his painting as his authentic stamp. It is the mentioned robustness of the long path, and the broad sculpture and Baroque dramatic color use, which shake the psyche. It is the tense rhythmical drawing that functions like in the robust trees, “full of the memory of the pain and existential human agony” (Ефтим Клетников, the same catalogue), and a melancholy that announces that the contemplativeness of the exit from agony has not been quite put to sleep, which reminds us of Durer and El Greco (He – 1993, Don Quixote in Macedonia – 1992, and the images of Christ). His paintings are always in the night atmosphere. As if the artists wanted to make it easier to the tortured figures at least when it comes to their bodies, because “the night takes away the body and the day the soul”. Vladimir Georgievski brings in a strong engagement in his painting, with an artistically implemented response to time which is complete and typical for Macedonian expressionism. The involvement of this kind, done without any deviation from the completely implemented artistic masterly skill. “Any spiritual art presupposes a strict school” is something that is fully demonstrated by Georgievski. This is what can be considered a special feature of the Macedonian expressionism.

The topics of Georgievski’s painting are spiritual models with anthropological presence: man, bread, old men, masters, expulsion from Heaven, Golgotha, crucifixions, resurrection of Christ, Don Quixote, through a common sign of existence being dramatic and tragic. This is painting of all past and upfront destroyed utopias for humanizing humanity, without which there is no meaning in life or art. The absence of this beauty that has not appeared, is presented by this painting as a tragic emptiness inside man. That is why this is expressionism about the spiritual image of time, unlike the previously psychological, neurotically tense existential image, which has started with the German expressionism. Still, we can sublime the healthy messages of this painting: crucifixion is human activity, resurrection is the divine filling inside men.

The gypsum sculpture which are a reflection of the same artistic style are unique as individual works as well, and especially as a whole which appears cathartic but also shocking in the iconostasis setting. This striking work remains not understood in a non-understandable way; it should have been built in some of the walls of the museums, galleries or cultural institutions. With this work and this vision, this is a capital sculptural ensemble in the Macedonian art.

2018-12-13T11:21:11+00:00 June 12th, 2017|Categories: Reviews, Gallery, Blesok no. 113|0 Comments