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)
From the Cycle Places, 1993
wood, 600 x 65 x 220cm.
Born in Skopje, Macedonia | 1934 – 1997
Southern Star, 1965 | Instant of the Time, 1966 | Composition, 1966 | Non-Functional Mechanism, 1966/1967 | Morbid Nucleus, 1966/1967 | Drawing, 1963 | Town Burning Down, 1964 | Untitled, 1968 | Wing Sculpture, 1968Reflecting Nucleus, 1968 | Sculpture 1, 1970 | Sculpture 2, 1970 | Sculpture 7, 1973 | Sculpture 12, 1972/1973 | Untitled, 1978 | Sculpture 10-2, 1977 | Sculpture 10-1, 1978 | Light Informer 2, 1983
Born in Erekovci, Macedonia | 1959
Changed Materiality, 1987
Dynamics – Selfsustained Static Minimum 4, 1989
Angular Senzation – Visual Pyramid, 1987
1949, Belgrade, Serbia – 2019, Skopje, Macedonia
Pirgon, 1976
Wood, plastic, 90 х 200 x 15 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 05219
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.
Born in Prilep | 1959
We present Petre’s artworkс from the series of works signed by Nikolovski and included in the collection of MoCA, wooden branches, metal nails on wood:
Object 8, 1985 | Space 7, 1986 | Balkan Carpet, 2002
Born in Skopje, Macedonia | 1928
We present Petar’s artworks from the series of works signed by Hadzi Boškov and included in the collection of MoCA, metal, lithography, polyester installation, sculpture, terracota:
Sculpture 3/4 , 1964 | Print No. 10, 1979 | Sculpture, 1980 | Street, 2004 | Dialogue, 1978 | Form, 1959 | Head 2, 1962/1963 | Sculpture 12 (from the series Skopje After the Earthquake), 1965 | Head 1, 1962 | Head 3, 1962 | Wing Sculpture, 1967 | Circle Sculpture, 1970 | Sculpture – Study 6, 1971 | Terracottas, 1974 | Associated Forms 2, 1986
1948, Karlovac, Croatia
Moment of Action 2, 1976
Polyester, 62 х 46 х 32 сm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 04592
Biography
Olga Milić was born in 1948 in Karlovec, Croatia. She graduated from the Academy of Applied Arts in Belgrade in 1974, and post-graduate studies at the St. Martins School of Art in London in 1978/79. From 1974 to 1979 she lived in Skopje. Permanently lives in Niš, Serbia. Works in sculpture and three dimensional drawings.
