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Cycle DifferencesTitle “Breaking point”

Year 2015

ašo Sazdovski is an artist who perceives his sculptural experience and works’ conceptualisation through strict and symbolic forms and clear minimalist compositions which, depending on the thematic disposition, create mutual rhythmic/continual relations and harmonic/specific positions. His previous exhibitions have always been based on clear settings strictly moving in the framework of the chosen material and its visual-spatial shape.In the work of Sazdovski only clear plastic acts and materialisations exist, occasionally expressing certain decentred form, but again, even that content is

harmoniously, proportionally placed in the orderly framework of the formal, high quality plastic solution. In his latest achievement, Sazdovski goes a step further and creates a spatial show, which, in its subjective context, is completely different from his previous experience. Namely, “Differences’ is closer to an installation comprised of three objects combining different/counterpoised materials. In this exhibition, constantly present is the author’s attention as to the relation visible/invisible, present/nonpresent, transparent/nontransparent in relation to the used materials.This exhibition is now in a complete synergy with the space, the interaction between the viewer and the work gets a certain engagement and, in utmost relation to author’s work, obvious is the mutual interaction of different structures of same or differing materials and their combination in specific, formal relationships and proportions according to the personal idea and feelings.

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Cycle DifferencesTitle: “Meeting point” Marble with black painted concave circle Year 2015

Cycle DifferencesInstallation DifferencesTitle “Focus” - Object - 5 gradient in size 2m diameter to 1m Plexiglas circles on base, Title “Meeting point” Sculpture marble with black painted concave circle and Title “Uncertainty” - Hanging rectangle Plexiglas object covered with black mat foil Year 2015

Cycle DifferencesTitle “Meeting point” Marble with black painted concave circle and Title “Uncertainty” - Plexiglas hanging rectangle object covered with black mat foil Year 2015

Cycle DifferencesInstallation DifferencesTitle “Focus” - Object - 5 gradient in size 2m diameter to 1m Plexiglas circles on base, Title “Meeting point” Sculpture marble with black painted concave circle and Title “Uncertainty” - Plexiglas hanging rectangle object covered with black mat foil Year 2015

Installation DifferencesDetailTitle “Meeting point” Marble with black painted concave circle and Title “Uncertainty” Plexiglas hanging rectangle object covered with black mat foil Year 2015

Sašo Sazdovski is an artist who perceives his sculptural experience and works’ conceptualisation through strict and symbolic forms and clear minimalist compositions which, depending on the thematic disposition, create mutual rhythmic /continual relations and harmonic/specific positions. The gaze of the spectator is always engaged with the straight or curvy/rounded movements of his sculptures, focusing on the volume and lines’ sculptural language, following simultaneously their dynamics which, most often, calls upon the clear and reduced subtle plasticity. When the titles of his previous sculptural cycles, such as “Infinity,” “Family” or “Energy,” are seen, it is immediately clear that Sazdovski insists on firm and concrete problematising of the sculp-tural experience of the treated materials. Plasticity of conceptualisation, tactile reduction in abstract, symbolic and associative forms, elementary craftsmanship of the used material being always consistent and discarding any surplus/shortage in the expression of the basic character and author’s sense of the shape; accuracy, primary and clear sculptural form and consistency in the formal composition. His previous exhibitions have been always based on clear settings strictly moving in the framework of the chosen material and its visual-spatial shape. Sensuality is reduced to calm expression, to the nonexistence of an ‘accidental’ trace and in rational suggestivity which, most often, is threaded with rounded plastic structure moving from outside to inside. There is no tension regardless the used material (marble, stone, tree...), even when works realised through different materials combination in their compositional shape are at stake. In the work of Sazdovski only clear plastic acts and materialisations exist, occasionally expressing certain decentred form, but again, even that content is harmoniously, proportionally placed in the orderly framework of the formal, high quality plastic solution. In his latest, grand dimensions achievement, Sazdovski goes a step further or, creates a spatial show, which, in its subjective context, is completely different from his previous experience. Name-ly, “Differences’ is closer to an installation comprised of three objects combining different/counterpoised materials as to Sazdovski’s previous deed such as marble granite from one side and Plexiglas from the other... This exhibition is now in a complete synergy with the space, the interaction between the viewer and the work gets a certain engagement and, in utmost relation to author’s work, obvious is the mutual interaction of different structures of same or differing materials and their combination in specific , formal relationships and proportions according to the personal idea and feelings. The author here simply dissects his compact “ideal” and rhythmic experience of the sculpture as a compact plastic structure from the tradition of the sculpture liberating it in an “object” made of different and “confronted” materials. As a stepping stone for this spatial composition the author takes his sculptures names as “Differences,” exposed in the USA, made of the combination of marble and granite elements with “pieces” of Plexiglas. According to the author, the subject of “Differences” results from the intersection of natural materials made of sedimented, differing substances such as the marble as calcium made remnants from fossilised organisms from the bottom of the seas and, on the other hand, there is the Plexiglas as industrially made material. From these series of sculptures, the author takes over the work symbolically titled “Breaking moment” for his latest exhibition which represents, sort of, an introduction to the overall exhibi-tional setting. The “breaking moment” which, in the view of the author, is a metaphorical title for a moment of a new and different decision, an initial impulse or rather a change in a certain “secure position.” A moment which brings about a condition of abandoning the recognisable and a step forward in certain “particular’ but yet certain condition/perception/aim. The central element of the exhibition is titled “Focus” comprised of five transparent Plexiglas made circles placed on a pedestal with two meters dimensions decreasing to twenty-five centime-tres volume and up to one meter in diameter. This decreasing creates a sort of a visual and immaterial “tunnel” dragging the view focusing it on a (decentred) point placed in the next element titled “Focus.” Such an immediate “focusing” to the dark recess from the second element of the exhibition placed across “Focus” is a marble object named “Final point.” It is comprised of harshly broken and cracked surfaces and a smoothly treated black circular depression which expresses the author’s idea for the fine and confronted/differing intercourse of the material/materials most directly. Here is also the massive Plexiglas panel coated in dark folia expressing, in a way, its energy nontransparency and opposition with the used “invisible” Plexiglas in the exhibition. In this exhibition, constantly present is the author’s attention as to the relation visible/invisible, present/nonpresent, transparent/nontransparent in relation to the used materials. In all these objects we may read metaphorical contents but also, being perhaps even more important for Sazdovski, is the sculptural spatiality as technically aesthetic process preoccupying the author in the work on the very form. In his latest work he maintains a certain universal relation such as the symmetry in its already diverse approaches towards the sculptural disciplines and links with the materials.

Dejan Bugjevac, art historian and art critic

DIFFERENCES

PREVIEWS EXHIBITIONS

PRIMA CENTER BERLIN

Next page: Installation “Long. Loud. Silence.”, 2015MC Galery New York(detail: black plastic PEZ children toys)

MC Galery New York

Cycle Differences Title “Slice black”Plexiglas and marbleNew York MC GalleryYear 2015

Cycle Differences Title “White qb”Title “Red broke”Title “B&W”Title “Trajectory”Plexiglas and marbleNew York MC GalleryYear 2015

Cycle Differences Title “Slice onyx”Plexiglas and marbleNew York MC GalleryYear 2015

European Capital of Culture UMEA 2013

Paris, France

Next page:Sculpture “Harmony”, 2007Marble and amber1st place for sculpture `Galerie du Colombier` European Capital of Culture UMEA 2014 Paris, France

Palazzo Albrizzi

Venice, Italy, 2014

Next page:Sculpture “Energy”, 2001Marble”Pixels of Identities” international exhibition of video art, installation and performing art Palazzo Albrizzi, Venice, Italy, 2014”Pixels of Identities” is part of the festival Morphos organized in Venice in the months between June and November 2014, parallel with the Architecture Biennale.The exhibition explore the different facets of social, physical and cultural identities of our contemporary societies.

Award for sculpture ‘DIMO TODOROVSKI’

exhibition of DLUM

Skopje, Macedonia

Next page:Sculpture “Mother and child”, 2009Marble and graniteAward for sculpture ‘Jordan Grabul’ Annual exhibition of DLUM Skopje, Macedonia, 2009

Award for sculpture ‘Jordan Grabul’

Annual exhibition of DLUM

Skopje, Macedonia

Next page:Sculpture “Infinity”, 2001 MarbleAward for sculpture ‘Jordan Grabul’ Annual exhibition of DLUM Skopje, MacedoniaPurchase Award for sculpture ‘Infinity’ Skopje City Museum, Macedonia

Special prize for sculpture

‘Oskar KokoschKa’ Pochlarn, Austria

Cycle Infinity Title “Playing marble”Special prize for sculpture “Oscar Kokoschka” Pochlarn, AustriaYear 2013

Cycle Infinity Title “Infinite round”MarbleYear 2005

Cycle Infinity Title “Infinity” MarbleYear 1999

Cycle EnergyTitle “Energy knot”MarbleYear 2005

Cycle InfinityTitle “Infinity inside-out”MarbleYear 2001

Cycle EnergyTitle “Energy crossover”marble Year 2006

Cycle Infinity Title “Double infinity” MarbleYear 1999

Cycle InfinityTitle “Double inside infinity” MarbleYear 1999/2006

Cycle Infinity Title “Infinity continuum”White marbleYear 1998

Form 2 White marbleYear 1997

Cycle InfinityTitle “Infinity” White marbleYear 1999

Cycle EnergyTitle “Energy link”MarbleYear 2005

Cycle Family Title “Mother and child”White and color marbleYear 2006

Cycle Family Title “Family protection”White marble and graniteYear 2006

Cycle InfinityTitle “Macedonia”Marble and graniteYear 1998

Cycle Family Title “Family” Marble and graniteYear 2007

Cycle FamilyTitle “Living with one parent” Marble and graniteYear 2006

Title “Equilibrium”White marble and graniteYear - 2011

Cycle infinity Title “Infinite labyrinth”White marbleYear - 2000

Cycle InfinityTitle “Infinite bloom”White marble Prilep sculpture colony - Center for contemporary fine art - Prilep MacedoniaYear - 1999

MONUMENTAL SCULPTURES

Marble quarry “Bela Pola” - Nebregovo PrilepPhoto by Atanas Atanasoski ©

Sculptures in Nebregovo, Marble shaft, near Prilep, MacedoniaMaster art works Cycle EnergyWhite marbleYear 2001 - 2004

Cycle EnergyTitle “My brother’s heart”White marbleYear 2001 - 2004

Cycle EnergyTitle “Slower further” (silent water worn the shore)White marble Year - 2001

Cycle Energy Title “Energy transfer” Placed in front of Ministry of Culture of R. Macedonia competition by Ministry of Culture of Republic of Macedonia White marble Year - 2002/2003

Cycle Energy Title “Energy”White marble Year - 2002/ 2004

Cycle EnergyTitle “Energy flip”White marble Year - 2004

Cycle EnergyTitle “Infinite energy”White marble Year - 2001/2002

Cycle EnergyTitle “Infinite circulation”White marble Year - 2003/2004

Cycle EnergyTitle “Energy - choice is freedom”White marble Year - 2001/2004

Title “O”Expanded concreteMark Rothko Museum - Daugavpils - Latvia Year 2013

International sculpture symposium Danilovgrad, MontenegroTitle - “Turning Point”MarbleYear 2010

Title “Join”SandstoneBaku - Azerbaijan Year 2016

Title “Breaktrough”MarbleReana del Rojale - Udine - ItalyYear 2016

Cycle Family Title “Family” Cappadocia Volcanic rocksYear 2012

Cycle FamilyTitle “Family” Cappadocia Volcanic rocksYear 2013

Title “Noon” Marble - Emprador light and black Marina marbleAbu DhabiYear 2013/2014

SAŠHO SAZDOVSKI

Born 1976 in Skopje, Republic of Macedonia1985 High School for applied arts Department of Sculpture ‘Lazar Licenovski’, Skopje Macedonia2000 BFA Academy of Fine Arts, Department of Sculpture - Graphic designer, Skopje Macedonia2006 MFA Postgraduate degree Department of Sculpture Academy of Fine Arts, Skopje Macedonia2000 Member of the DLUM Macedonian Artists Society Skopje, Macedonia

PROFESSIONAL EXPIRIENCE

2002 Design plaque for MIM Macedonian Institute for Media, Award for best research journalist story 2003/14 Annual plaque design ‘Jean Monet’ for European Commotion Delegation EU2005/6 Graphic designer in Marketing Agency ‘CREATIVA NOVA’ Skopje Macedonia2011/16 Annual plaque design for ‘Best Actor of the year - for Dramatic Arts’ MPM Media Print Macedonia2011/16 Annual plaque design for ‘Book of the year’ Award MPM Media Print Macedonia2012/16 Professor for Fine Arts ‘Rade Jovceski Korcagin’ Skopje Macedonia

INTERNATIONAL GROUP EXHIBITION

2016 - Langkawi Art Malaysia Biennale Contemporary art gallery, group exhibition Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia2016 - 1st International stone sculpture symposium Baku, Azerbaijan 2016 - 19th International stone sculpture symposium Reana del Rojale - Udine - Italy2016 - Stefan Jäger International Art Symposium, Jimbolia, Romania 2016 - OFAIES International exhibition and Symposium Kalakshetra Museum Guwahati, India 2015 - Contemporary Abu Dhabi art fair Manarat Al Saadiyat Cultural District, Abu Dhabi, UAE 2014/15 - Residency for Contemporary art Abu Dhabi, UAE 2014 - European Artist conference and symposium ‘Social justice-Social networking for equality’ Essen, Germany2014 - International contemporary art expo MORPHOS, parallel with Architectural Venice biennale ‘Pixels of identities’ Palacio Albrizi Venice, Italy 2014 - 12th International biennial miniature art Gornji Milanovac, Serbia2013 - International sculpture and painting symposium Pochlarn, Austria2013 - International art exhibition gallery `La Columbier` Paris, France 2013 - International ice sculpture festival ‘Skulpfest’ Prizren, Kosovo2012 - 6th International Biennial exhibition of small graphics Tetovo, Macedonia2012 - International stone sculpture symposium ‘Spirit of Balkans’ Kesan, Turkey2012 - 1st International art festival Varazdin, Croatia 2012/13 - 9th 10th International art symposium Cappadocia, Turkey2011 - 2th International sculpture symposium Bad Schlema, Germany2011 - 4th International sculpture and painting symposium Penza, Russia2011 - Outstanding International sculpture symposium Hundested, Denmark 2010 - 100 Openings group international exhibition Europe Culture Center, Berlin Germany

2010 - International sculpture symposium Danilovgrad, Montenegro2010 - 2th International sculpture symposium IN VIVO Novi Sad, Serbia2010 - DLUM Drawings group exhibition Skopje, Macedonia2009 - Winter Salon - Biennial selective exhibition Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Skopje, Macedonia2009 - Annual group exhibition Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia2009 - International sculpture and painting symposium Banja Luca, Bosnia and Hercegovina2009 - Small Format DLUM Macedonian artist society, selective group exhibition Skopje, Macedonia2018 - 107 Macedonian Contemporary artist exhibition ‘Cite Internationale des artes’ gallery, Paris, France 2008 - 7th International sculpture symposium ‘Hanna Vihterova’ Prosteov, Czech Republic 2008 - International sculpture symposium Castle Balcik, Bulgaria 2006 - 1st International painting and sculpture symposium Torres Vedras, Portugal2002/6 - ‘Winter Salon’ Biennial DLUM group exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art MOCA Skopje, Macedonia2004/15 - ‘Sculpture of the new age’ traveling sculpture exhibition Kumanovo, Macedonia2002/8- Annual DLUM group exhibition, Macedonian Artists Society, Skopje Macedonia2002/8 -DLUM miniature group exhibition, Macedonian Artists Society, Skopje Macedonia2002 - International painting and sculpture symposium Prilep, Macedonia2000 - International sculpture symposium Strumica, Macedonia2000 - International sculpture symposium Kicevo, Macedonia2000 - Monotypes symposium prof. Petar Hadziboskov studio, ICON project, Skopje Macedonia

SOLO EXHIBITION

2017 - Contemporary Art in Residence and solo exhibition Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates UAE2016 - ‘Differences’ Sculpture solo exhibition National Institution Center for Culture ‘Trajko Prokopiev’ Kumanovo, Macedonia2016 - Sculpture solo exhibition 55 Struga Poetry Evenings, Struga, Macedonia2016 - ‘Differences’ Installation PCB Prima Center Berlin, Germany2015 - ‘Differences’ Sculpture installation, solo exhibition CCA Center for Contemporary art Art/Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia2015 - ‘Differences’ Sculpture solo exhibition MC Gallery, New York, USA2014 - ‘Family’ Sculpture solo exhibition, EU Info Center, Skopje, Macedonia2013/14 -Contemporary Art Residence and solo exhibition Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates UAE2011 - Solo exhibition in Macedonian Mission of European Union Brussels, Belgium2010 - Solo exhibition PCB Prima Center Berlin, Germany2009 - Sculpture solo exhibition Art salon Skopje, Macedonia2009 - Awarded monumental sculpture ‘Infinity circulation’ sidewalk of River Vardar Skopje Center, Macedonia 2009 - Awarded Monumental sculpture ‘Energy transfer’ in front of the building of Ministry of Culture, Skopje, Macedonia2007 - ‘Family’ Sculpture solo exhibition CC Cultural Center, Gostivar, Macedonia2002 - 7 Monumental sculpture, Master works, solo exhibition Aero Gallery, Skopje, Macedonia2002 - ‘Infinity’ Sculpture solo exhibition Prilep Summer Festival, Prilep, Macedonia2002 - ‘Infinity’ Sculpture solo exhibition ‘Heracleas night’ Summer Festival, Bitola, Macedonia2002 - ‘Infinity’ Sculpture solo exhibition Ohrid Summer Festival, Ohrid, Macedonia2001- ‘Infinity’ Sculpture solo exhibition CIC Cultural Information Center, Skopje, Macedonia

MUSEUM ACQUISITIONS AND PRIVATE COLLECTIONS Heydar Aliyev Foundation Public Sculpture Park, Baku Azerbaijan, Public Sculpture Park Reana del Rojale, Udine, Italy, Mark Rothko Museum Daugavpils Latvia, Contemporary Art Museum ACAM Abu Dhabi UAE, Museum Oskar Kokoschka Pochlarn Austria, Jimbolia, Romania, Castle Bаlchik National Museum Balchik Bulgaria, National Museum Bosnia and Herzegovina, Municipality Prostejov Czech Republic, Municipality Torres Vedras Portugal, Municipality A dos Cunhados Portugal, Abu Dhabi UAE, Essen Germany, Prizren Kosovo, New York USA, Hundested Denmark, Novi Sad Serbia, Danilovgrad Montenegro.Private Collections United Arab Emirates UAE, Russia, France, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Turkey, USA, Denmark and Macedonia.

AWARDS

2013 - 1rd Place Award for sculpture UMEA 2014 Paris, France 2013 - Special prize for sculpture ‘Oskar Kokoscha’ Pochlarn, Austria2009- Award for miniature sculpture ‘Dimo Todorovski’ Annual exhibition of DLUM, Skopje, Macedonia 2009- Award for sculpture ‘Jordan Grabul’ Annual exhibition of DLUM Skopje, Macedonia 2008- Award for two monumental sculpture competition by Ministry of Culture on Republic of Macedonia, Skopje, Macedonia2008- Plaque for public sculpture from Major Jan Tesar of Prosteov, Czech Republic 2006- Plaque for two public sculpture for town hall in Municipality A dos Cunhados, Portugal2001- Purchase Award for sculpture ‘Infinity’ Skopje City Museum, Skopje, Macedonia 2001- Award for sculpture ‘Jordan Grabul’ Annual exhibition of DLUM, Skopje, Macedonia

Sašo Sazdovski mail: [email protected]. “Rugjer Boshkovikj” 13 2/19 tel. + 389 (0)77 985244 www.sazdovski.blogspot.comSkopje Macedonia

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Publisher: Center for contemporary art ART SKOPJE, Skopje R. Macedonia 2016For the publisher: Hristina Despotovska, DirectorText: Dejan Bugjevac, Art historian and art critic

English translation and lecture: Nadezda SerafimovskaGrapic design & photography: Pandora Apostoloska Sazdovska ©

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