1944, Skopje, Macedonia
Transformation of the Form III, 1980
Terra-cotta, 32 x 23 x 23 cm
Acquisition: Purchase
Reference: 02927
Biography
Makedonka Andonova (born August 16, 1944 in Skopje) is a Macedonian ceramist, designer and professor.[1]
She graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade. She designed glass and porcelain for industrial needs. She teaches at the Faculty of Fine Arts and the School of Applied Arts in Skopje. She works in unique ceramics, sculpture and design. She has exhibited solo and in group exhibitions.
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1981, Diyarbakır, Turkey
Living Beings Squatting Institutions (The Weimaraner Dog of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston), 2020
Plaster, 105 x 157 x 74
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 05225
1898, Lawton, United States – 1976, New York, United States
Red Polygon, 1961
Metal, red flat oil paint
Mobile sculpture with variable dimensions
Acquisition: Donated by the artist, 1964
Reference: 00999
In 1964 Boris Petkovski, the first director of the MoCA Skopje, addressed Calder, and in the letter, he stated a request to receive his work as a gift to newly established Museum of Contemporary Art. The answer came promptly and included in it was the artist’s wish to meet and choose the work in person. At their meeting in Calder’s atelier in Saché, village in France, Calder’s decision was to donate one of his mobiles. Additionally, surprised by the modesty of Boris Petkovski, the artist decided to donate another work, a gouache which he dedicated to the city of Skopje.
Biography
Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor known both for his innovative mobiles (kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents) that embrace chance in their aesthetic, his static “stabiles”, and his monumental public sculptures. Calder preferred not to analyze his work, saying, “Theories may be all very well for the artist himself, but they shouldn’t be broadcast to other people.”
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1899 – 1980
Human Struggle, 1967
Aluminum, 300 x 85 x 85cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 01747
Biography
Sculptor in metal, born at Gravesend, Kent. He was awarded a silver medal by the RBS in 1968. Watkins took part in many mixed shows and had a number of one-man exhibitions in Britain. The Royal Free Hospital and School of Medicine, London, commissioned work from him, which is also in the City Art Gallery, Manchester, at other British locations as well as in Yugoslavia and Norway. Watkins was for some time a sailor and nautical instruments are a theme of his work, which was influenced by that of the American sculptor David Smith. A retrospective was held at Calouste Gulbenkian Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1970. Lived in New Barnet, Hertfordshire.
Source: Artists in Britain Since 1945 by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
Tome Adzievski
1958, Strumica, Macedonia
From the cycle Places, 1993
Wood, synthetic resin, set of 4 sculptures: 174 х 22 х 20; 148 х 20 х 20; 154 х 22 х 21;158 х 21 х 18 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03830
1934 – 1997, Skopje, Macedonia
Morbid Nucleus, 1966/67
Metal, 190 x 62 x 15 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 04286
1959, Erekovci
The Work Above the Book-The Book Above the Work, 2004
Plywood box, glass, six books, 70 x 200 x 70 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 04208
1949, Belgrade, Serbia – 2019, Skopje, Macedonia
Pirgon, 1976
Wood, plastic, 90 х 200 x 15 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 05219
* Simon Uzunovski’s Endowment includes 55 objects, paintings, drawings, notes, and collages donated by his sons, Nikola and Marko Uzunovski.
Biography
Born in 1949 in Belgrade. In 1982, he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture in Skopje. He also studied History of Art with Archeology at the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje. His work includes various procedures and disciplines: architecture, scenography, painting, drawing, collage, ready-made, installations, interventions, actions. With his participatory projects from the 1970s, realized outside of the museum-gallery system, he stands out as one of the key figures of the conceptual discourse in Macedonian art. From 1980 to 1985 he was actively engaged in scenography. Together with Krste Dzidrov, he created scenographies for the Theater Workshop at the Aesthetic Laboratory of the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje (1980-1982) as well as scenographies for professional theaters, for which they received several awards. Apart from Skopje, he also worked and lived on the Italian island of Capri, where he realized a large number of solo exhibitions. He died on December 10, 2018 in Skopje.
1959, Prilep, Macedonia
Circle (from the series Spaces), 1989
Wood, rope, 220 x 220 x 80 cm
Acquisition: Gift from the artist
Reference: 04955
1928, Skopje, Macedonia – 2015, Skopje, Macedonia
Sculpture III/IV, 1964
Metal, 80 x 40 x 52 cm
Acquisition: Gift
Reference: 00595
* The collection of works by Petar Hadzi Boshkov includes a total of 43 artworks: 18 sculptures and sculptural compositions, and 25 prints.
Biography
Petar Hadzi Boshkov (Skopje, 1 June 1928 – Skopje, 22 March 2015) was a Macedonian sculptor.
In 1953, he graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana under the tutelage of the sculptors Boris Kalin (1905–75) and Zdenko Kalin (b 1911). After that, he returned to Skopje exhibited sculptures, prints and drawings conceived according to his mentors’ poetic interpretation of French Expressionist sculpture. By the end of the 1950s, he was invited to study at the Royal College of Art in London under the British Council postgraduate scholarship programme. His UK stay was so prolific that a year later, in 1960, Henry Moore himself opened Petar’s solo exhibition at the Grabowski Gallery in London. This was the first showcasing of Macedonian sculpture in the UK. In 1960, he joined the group Mugri in Skopje and started his series of Masks (1961-3), crafted from welded scrap-metal sheets. From the mid-1960s the influence of Lynn Chadwick and Kenneth Armitage was superseded by that of Minimalism. During the 1970s Hadji Boskov sculpted the granite monument to Kliment Ohridski in Skopje (1972) and the monument to the Fallen Combatants (1977) in Ravne na Koroskem in Slovenia. In this period, he produced tall, mineral-like objects in polished metal, as well as massive clay blocks with richly faceted planes glazed in vivid colors. From 1980 to 1993, he was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje. In 2004, Boskov creates a monument, in memorial, which shows various phases of the life and works of Panko Brashnar, a great Macedonian revolutionary. At its regular assembly in May 2009, Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts (MANU) elected Boskov as one of its new members. In 2010, National Gallery of Macedonia, Skopje hosted an exhibition with more than 150 of his sculptures, many of which had not been seen by the public.
Hadzi Boshkov is an honorary member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and is considered to hold a prominent place in the development and avant-garde changes in the artistic thought in Macedonian modern art.
Source: https://hadziboskov.mk/en
