Shy Erotics

Shy Erotics

Should we wish to point to original contributions to erotic art in our country, then the first, the most versatile and fertile and certainly incomparable is the body of work by Nikola Martinoski who, in painting, sketch and graphics, and through the theme of the erotic, points to his artistic development in his own way and reveals his creative personality. In his works, made in the style of classical realism, up to modern expressionism 1927-1973, he revealed various erotic themes, from calm to extremely upset, lyrical and harsh eroticism (erotic fantasy and erotic naturalism?)
Following expressionism in some of the new forms, the works of two other painters are of significance. One is Petar Mazev, who in the very act of painting and feeling the color, deforming of figures indicates the spontaneity of the erotic involving drama and aggressive feeling of love.
#10Gligor Čemerski, has stressed an intellectual and emotional attitude towards this theme, by taking his erotic presentations to a paroxysm, and showing a symbolic manner in expression, emphasizing dramatics, unrest and a kind of a sharp, rebelling lyricism. He communicates thoroughly and convincingly with some classical or archaic motives, thus showing as both of the previously mentioned artists, a pagan indulgence in the feeling and in interpreting of the erotic contents. In Vangel Naumovski’s authentic works one can see a certain idealized, immaculate and childlike innocent presentation of eroticism in which there is a poetic merge between man and nature. Those are the imaginary areas of the dream, presented in a symbolic, surrealistic, secessionist and abstract manner, thus revealing very stylized associations of circular elliptic forms-color (sperm, parts of the body and of plants, the uterus, a cave etc.)
We must point to a neo-expressionist current which is present in the works by Dimitar Manev, Tome Adžievski, Ratko Nestorovski, Grozdan Krstevski, and others, who discover new subjects and a new manner of feeling of the erotic, with a certain symbolism, irony and grotesque in presentation, (Agievski) and at places even by equating love and hate and so on.
#11 A significant number of works, mainly images of female nudes, are included in the domain of the quiet hedonism, such as the works by Dimitar Pandilov, Avramovski, Lazar Ličenoski, Vangel Kodžoman, Tomo Vladimirski, Dimo Todorovski, Raško Muratovski and others, or the expressively portrayed “nude bodies”, Dančo Ordev, Gjoko Krstevski. In the material presented by Evgenija Demnievska, we can find filtered and subtle erotic symbolism, with phallic forms and meanings.

Spase Kunovski’s “erotic visions” contains multi-layered presentations on the relation between life and erotica and transience– death in the atmosphere of frozen time and “real fiction” in feeling. This is also presented in Vasko Taškovski’s works, though in a more severe and more optimistic way, while Vasili Kirjazovski expresses repulsive alienation in the erotic. Slavoljub Ignjatović is almost meditative in symbolic erotica.
Grotesque, with its archaic anthropological features is present in the works of Aneta Svetieva, a s well as in Petre Nikoloski’s video, primitively given in Blagoj Čuškov’s work, and with direct naiveté in Krsto Slavkovski’s work, and wittily in the works by Dimče Koco. The existential unrest and sickness in the presentation of love is present in the works by Rodoljub Atanasov. A certain neo-romanticism is found in the quiet intimacy of the erotic in the works by Rubens Korubin and Dimitar Malidanov. A kind of “excessive erotica” is found in the paintings and graphics by Biljana Unkovska, and certain neurosis and frustrations are evident in the sketches by Kiril Efremov, Vladimir Bogoević, Miloš Kodžoman and others. In the works by Aleksandar Ivanovski– Karadare and Risto Mijakoski we can find the urban locations in which a “stylized” erotica unfolds. Vasko Vasilev develops a certain kind of a cultured primitive “sculpture erotica” with symbolic features of figurative, indirect and witty effects.
The works of the Sculptor, Jordan Grabulovski is also worthy of mention; he created works with a direct, hidden and associative eroticism, which keeps inside the ambivalence in the feeling and the attitude to this subject. A subdued sensibility and a certain reserve in the psychological sense are hidden in these “abstract” forms and figure works.
An indirect eroticism, and yet direct in painting, is found in the semi-figurative works by Slobodan Filovski. The sketches by Risto Lozanovski and especially the ones by Simeon Siljanovski are very interesting in their versatile themes and immediacy of the events. Vlado Pavleski is very clear in the allusions to the irony of the motive of castration, while the sculptors Petar Hadži-Boškov, Gligor Stefanov and others are interested in associative eroticism in the forms and the meaning of the material in the artwork.

Božidar Damjanovski is reflexive in his erotic “scientism”, and Ordan Petleski is sensible and symbolic in his presentations.

AuthorVladimir Veličkovski
2018-08-21T17:24:02+00:00 October 1st, 1998|Categories: Reviews, Blesok no. 05, Gallery|0 Comments