"Paintings, Drawings and Two Etchings" In this new group of paintings by Dandarov, we have works which are dealing with the grotesque dominated by the presence of satire.

Recent Work

Hiding in plain sight beneath the illusionistic surface of Sylvie Zurstrassen’s paintings lies an autonomous world of organic forms refracted and distilled from the keen observation of the natural world, filtered through the eye and sensibility of this supremely talented artist.

Mixed Double , a video installation by Carmen Kordas, spawns pairs of unknown live forms. The ephemeral, and yet carnal couplings undulate and morph as they parasitically cling onto Gallery MC’s columns.

Fragmented Archive of the Artist from the Country in Transition

Unlike the explicit pathos and seriousness and the frightful tone used by expressionists to approach the horrors of war, Aleksanda Petruševska, with her second solo art project, dionysianly courageous and with a subtle taste of hybridity, experiment and innovation, offers us a radically affirmative and nonmimetic vision of a past and tragic reality.

“Trash is not being trash in a trash society and still attracts attention.” The violence and the nudity aren’t shocking and scandalizing any more but the moment of unpredictability and surprise is!

In this complex area of the language re-definition, the search of a denied identity, we find Pietro Finelli’s research, which he expresses through painting and complementary drawing. Painting and writing interact in the context of an art whose aim is "digging to unearth," primarily the latent energy, which is the substratum of reality, and which tries to retrieve a gravitational force able to reconnect the scattered fragments of existence.

The exhibition should be understood as an ironic intonation of regards sent to one’s co-nationals. Indeed, the selection is purposely trans-national and has intention to disrupt the fantasy of the Balkans as the Other of the West.

The conceptual strategy of the lucidly conceived texture of the recycled, endless games of the info-manipulations, the actual basis of practically all kind of social ideologies, were the foundations this artist has used to derive from the labyrinths of the deliberate senselessness a closure of the meaning of his extraordinarily creative artistic ideology.

The ideoplastics of the theme (titled ”Bio-Geo-Theo”) creates a relationship with the cosmological (universal?!) conditions and with micro-macro perspectives such as: movement, the crossing, the symmetry, the polarization, the familiarity, the mutuality, etc.

The images created by the artist are echoes of memories, psychological states, moments of awareness.

Using the achievements of the globalism, from a position of inferiority, Kodžoman II carries a message on the particularity and identity of his people who have preserved the "endemic" characteristics and esthetic issues which are part of the current project of this artist who skillfully points out how can an old topic be shown in a new and contemporary way.

On Friday July 17, artists will literally play with their food, adopt new personae through role play and performance and implicate audiences in group play. The evening begins with the ‘Lucullan Feast,’ a gathering of artists around a dining table to present food as interactive sculpture and sensory experience. The cultural history of food has made compelling connections between visual stimulation and appetite linked with the idea that ‘we eat with our eyes before we eat with our mouth.’ The project asks artists to consider the inherently visual qualities of food, and in the process, to implement alternate modes of function and presentation by re-inventing the vessels, containers or utensils associated with their chosen dish. The ‘Lucullan Feast’ is a lavish buffet of ideas, a profusion of playful outcomes, a contempt for limitations and an invitation to taste.

Works on Paper

Result of an abstract drawing act, the dark parts are an equivalent of the fluent and frantic rythm of the soul, of the strenght-primitiveness-purity of the life. A sort of spontaneous prose or action painting but not without a sure rational basis that spells the irrational movement of the mind.

“Illuminati Nuovi” features a spectacular collection of works by six internationally renowned artists: Slavco Sokolovski, Blagoja Manevski, Santiago Hernandez, Danielle Sauve, Raphael DiLuzio, and Paul Stremple. Pencil on paper inspired by the cosmos, beautiful re-envisionings of the horizon, time-based paintings, the breaking down and pixelation of every-day objects, “Cartographers,” and telescopes that lead to new meaning are a reaction to the times in which we live. Exploring different ideas defining to the Age of Enlightenment - from naturalism and the public sphere to philosophies on spirituality and love - each artist challenges the viewer to adopt a new “enlightenment.”

Exhibition of wall clay works
The work on view spans several years, representing the artist’s ongoing interest in a minimalist aesthetic. Each piece is created by a single imprint or brush stroke, sometimes repeated rhythmically, carrying the spirit of the present moment. The consciousness of this simple creative process extends to the viewer.

Drawing Lightscapes is an installation that explores the tension between the physical and the projected through using light as a medium to draw lightscapes onto screens and lighting objects as an instrument to project, filter and reflect this light. The installation is constructed to allow for two major modes of viewing: the unobstructed view of the lightscapes as drawings, which imply an imaginary scape, as well as narrow passage zones, which encourage the viewer to peek behind the screens and enter the field of projection.

The Tunnel installation is an ambient audio - visual installation which imposes interactive and close communication with the observer, positioned with enough tendentiousness to entrap and transform the gallery space. The recipient is burst into a labyrinth of impressions created through the language of visualization.

Between times in New York, Florence and Zagreb, at her most recent exhibition in the Gallery MC of New York, entitled White, Gray, Black, subtitled Art of Impotence, Ljiljana Mihaljevic continues with her power of impotence series, marked by letter installations or paintings, by video installations and performances.

Pedro Sanchez3, PS3*, films will be featured at: Gallery MC, New York, Nov. 20th. 2008, Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, 2009. Previous shows, Striped House gallery, Tokyo, 2002, Plaza Gallery -Tokyo Art Museum, 2001, 57 Gallery, Madrid, 1996, etc.

Rasim Babayev: "World of Drawings" at Gallery MC- This exceptional exhibition—the first in the USA of the career of Rasim Babayev (1927 - 2007), non-conformist artist, one of the most important 20th-century Azerbaijani masters of expressionism.
This show is the first to focus exclusively on Babayev's drawings and will present over 25 works on paper in different medium.

This September 25th, Gallery MC presents “O Canada,” an interdisciplinary survey exhibition introducing the work of six Canadian artists living in the United States. Featuring sculptors, painters, filmmakers, and installation artists, the show will kick off opening night with a live performance of Julie Lequin’s This American Life.

Blagoja Manevski & Slavco Sokolovski- Two Man Exhibition showing at Gallery MC in September of 2008.

Gallery MC is pleased to host Ipso Facto, an artist–organized photography exhibition featuring the works of the following emerging artists: Peter Butler, Matthew Calabrese , Laura Cali , Luke Chase, Joe Howansky, Mercedes Jelinek, Matt Licari, Chrissy Lush, Daniel Salemi, Marshall Scheuttle, Tanis Winslow and Maggie Salesman.

Tome Adzievski, Stanko Pavleski and Jovan Sumkovski

Art Space Sibyl Cohen's first solo show in New York, "Art Space" is named after the representation of spaces being use for the development of today's Kultur. "Art Space", is also an installation of paintings, and, of course the space itself.

OMBRES by Pietro Finelli and Martin Gimenez Ombres, is the title for the new slide/video installation by artists Pietro Finelli and Martin Gimenez, curated by Gorazd Poposki. The word "ombres",(shadows), refers to what is believed to be the "material" for photography, cinema and video art.

Parsons Fine Arts Senior Thesis Show, 26 Artists

HOP - SCOTCH 
Exhibition as modular system Alen Floricic, Davor Kliman, Fulvio Juricic, Robert Pauletta, Robert Sošic, Olja Stipanovic, Bojan Šumonja + Video programme screenings Young Croatian Video 2000 – 2006 Curated by: Branka Bencic

Probability distributions

Group exhibition Gerald Abbott Predrag Dimitrijevic Aga Ousseinov Gorazd Poposki

ONE - Photographs

HERACLEA LYNCESTIS the city of Philip II the Macedon presents an unavoidable attraction and challenge for the Macedonian and world archeology. Built before 359 B.C. as a strategic center on the northwest border of the Macedonian province of Lyncestida, its past stretches far back into the shadows of Prehistory till the late Bronze Age.


Parsons Department of Fine Arts- “MINE: that or those belonging to me; the possessive of I”. BFA Thesis Exhibition 2007

A Car Window. Balcony Projection is a project which embodies three parts: Paris- New York - Kinshasa

Elia Alba, Ole Martin Lund Bø, Jonathan Calm, Anetta Mona Chisa and Lucia Tkáčová, Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen, Yevgeniy Fiks, Claudia Joskowicz and Peter Dorsey, Olga Kisseleva Björn Kjelltoft with Charlotte Wandt Elena Kovylina Lana Lin and H. Lan Thao Lam Laurent Montaron Silvia Russel

Recent Work (Non-Objective Painting) Non-objective painting is a form of madness lost to civilization some 20 years ago. Predrag Dimitrievich returns it with dispassionate vengeance. It’s checkmate from the get-go. These are bear-trap visual conundrums of geometric splendor. Predrag D. engineers impossible virtual nestings of pure space and form.

"The Annunciation of Archangel Gabriel" Mr. Balov lives and works in Berlin, Germany and is the Founder and Director of Prima Center Berlin.

A first group presentation of contemporary Croatian Ceramics

Best Before / Experience Of The Wasted: Two artists from Slovenia, Zora Stančič (printmaker) and Elena Fajt (mixed media), work with already used and/or wasted motives, materials, and contents to give them new meanings. Through their installaions, prints and objects visitors will face and question their own values, norms and prejudices

Zoran Jakimovski Amka Danailovska Toni Dimkovski Viktorija Dzimrevska Muhamedali Alili Tanja Solarska Temelkovski Emil Jakov Magda Velichkovska Stefan Jakimovski

The exhibition will display 33 graphic prints from the 18th and the 19th centuries of the collection of about 200 in possession of the Institute and the Museum of Prilep.

The Museum of Macedonia and Gallery MC present an exhibition of fresco replicas (scenes in their original size and color, painted with tempera on canvas) the most authentic replicas of Macedonian medieval painting from the 11th- 14th centuries.

The author draws ideas from the social reality, as well as from the current global events. However, the final version sees general meanings and symbols attributed to concrete matters. Initially, Delcho Mihajlov’s works uncover slowly. Nevertheless, they are lucid and easily comprehensible, and the whole of different symbols creates an effect of fictive suggestion.

Saint Clair Cemin/Robert Dandarov/Josh Fridman/James Hyde/Aga Ousseinov/ Don Porcaro/Gorazd Poposki/Kerry Shear/Ray Smith/Gail Stoicheff/Michael Yoder

From December 9th to December 31st Gallery MC will present THE TEN, an exhibition featuring the works by ten artists of diverse ethnic backgrounds living and working in and around the New York City area. With a catalogue introduction by Sara Hermann.

Alternative Flying Methods Among the issues this ambitious installation engages are the relationship between science and art; the centuries-old debate over whether sculptors are artists or artisans; the growing importance of machine-generated fabrication in contemporary art; and the mysterious, sometimes poetic dialogue between the negative image and the positive image. Related sculptures and works on paper will also be displayed

Some of the upcoming exhibitions and projects at Gallery MC in the fall...

This exhibition of recent work by New York based artist Carolyn Sheehan includes paintings, prints and objects.

The project is a journey. During the years 2003 and 2004 OPA traveled across Europe by a 40 years old car. The journey was carried out by modest means thus variety of adventures and difficulties occurred.

The present installation piece by the young Macedonian artist Goce Nanevski (1974, Skopje) is indicative of his creative approach: namely, it consists of migrating a fistful of recurring topics across the ever changing landscape of the new media