Current range of the exhibition activity at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopjeis very wide. In addition to organising exhibitions of the founders of the contemporary Macedonian fine arts (Nikola Martinoski, Dimitar Pandilov, Lazar Licenoski, Dimo Todorovski, Ljubomir Belogaski, Tomo Vladimirski and Vangel Kodžoman), there were also relevant study and thematic exhibitions such as: Anthology of the Macedonian Fine Art 1894-1994, Abstract Art in Macedonia 1960-1990, Sculpture-Space, Moments of the 1960's, 9 1/2 New Macedonian Art, Radiation, etc. An essential segment has been the appearance of young artists, while in the framework of international cooperation numerous presentations were realized abroad and from abroad.

Current exhibitions in MoCA are the following two:

Taki Pavlovski: Retro II/Diagrams
16. 11. - 16. 12. 2005

Taki Pavlovski’s exhibition titled "Retro II/Diagrams" presents 55 paintigs, objects and drawings organized in 22 conceptual units. Bigger part of the works were made in the last twenty years, and part of them are new works conceived to establish direct conceptual link with the older works. Taki Pavlovski was born in 1939 in Zelino, Kostur area in Greece. He has graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1964.

"... From mythology and religion the artist has taken the solemnity of the painting with some overtones of the totemic symbol as a trade-mark of transcedental, and yet concrete, situations; history has served him as his damatic text, but also as something more than just that. In the first place he wishes to halt that which is constant in it, which repeats itself, its rhythmic pattern, wishing to continue his examination of those values, converting them from universals into individual situations. The artist accepts the enveroment and the folklore of his people as an important task, turning to that inexhaustible fund of those foreshortenings which are at the same time an analysis of the past and an analysis of what exists, a dialogue with the past and with the present..."
Ladislav Barišić: T. M. Pavlovski, Skopje: JNA Gallery,1977 (cat. exh.)

Adem Rusinovci: Contact
26. 10. - 26. 11. 2005

Taking the genre of portrait as a frame for his multimedia project titled “Contact”, Kosovo artist Adem Rusinovci presents 34 sculptures and paintings, which is also including original music composed by Mendi Mengjiqi.
Adem Rusinovci was born in 1967 in Prishtina. He graduated from Academy of Fine Arts in Prishtina in 1995, when he bacame a member of the Kosovo’s Association of Figurative Artists. He finished his post-graduate studies from the same Academy in 1997 in the class of professor Agim Chavdarbasha.
Adem Rusinovci is currently a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Prishtina. He participated in many group exhibitions, and starting from 1995 he had five solo shows in Prishtina.

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