Jugoslav Mitevski “I Can’t Sing but I Do, I Can’t Dance but I Do, I Can’t Paint but I Do”
Ana Cristea gallery
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Ana Cristea Gallery presents the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Jugoslav Mitevski. The act of creation is inherently tentative. Each decision, each step along the way is taken gingerly, equal parts deliberation and chance, mathematical precision and blind enthusiasm. The impossible balance between many opposing forces and alternating influences serves as the only essential ingredient.
Jugoslav Mitevski’s choice of concrete as a medium literally manifests the transitive operation of documentation that is characteristic of creation. Despite it’s rigidity, concrete is an exceedingly responsive material. With the act of pouring into a preordained mold, creation is no longer merely an action that passes over an object. The action becomes the object. This balance between fluidity and structural definition is inherent from the work’s infancy. In several of the works on display, the hardened concrete slab is brutally beaten, broken in order to create a new form. Subsequent materials become active players: lacquer, ink, pigment and spray paint interact with concrete to determine relief, color and line. The resulting contextual structure documents the relationships between its component parts: their intimacies and their diffidence, and of course, the ever-elusive array of networks into which “they enter a mute dialogue that eludes a distinct narration.”
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Schedule
from October 30, 2014 to December 06, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-10-30 from 18:00 to 20:00