GALLERY MC | NEW YORK

JANA MANEVA CUPOSKA

“Connection”
Exhibition of Jana Maneva - Cuposka
at Gallery MC New York

CONNECTION
text by Atanas Chuposky

            Since the world exists, artists, through different techniques and media are always portraying what in their lives they’re encountering often – the human body. Artifacts, through all civilizations, starting with the Old world through medieval art and actual era of mass-media is confirming that fact. The human eye has always been and always will be fascinated from the object which is most often in his horizon: the human body.
            The drawings fro m the “Connection” are another verification of this postulate, argument of the fascination of the human body and his possible shapes, this time presented through one specific media of expression, through the drawing ink “technique”, black and white drawing ink, composed of soil pigments and water; putted on a paper, white and black, made of wood; with the pin made of metal, heated first to appropriate temperature and cooled later. Even with her choice of technique, the author is “connecting” different (four) natural elements, which, in her alchemic dish, in her “athanor” are forming unrecognizable m ix, and later fro m the chaos they’re making an order, here presented in shape of human figures, which in one unchaste game are connecting between them selves and with each other, with the space and with the nature, with the opposite sex and with their dreams. These figures doesn’t have any eyes, but this doesn’t bother them to see strong and deep – and to look for the inside beauty.
            In the drawing ink drawings the line is dominating: curved, straight, interrupted, cycled, rough, powerful… and the dot – the smallest line. The lines are playing, propounding and combining the m selves and so they’re creating human shapes: human figures, human portraits, details of the human body. In this game of connections between the lines, human figures are happy and cheerful and filled with life, or they’re sad and grievous and they’re feeling pain, or they’re empty and indisposed and they’re not feeling anything.
            The big artist fro m all periods have known that for attain the great art, one must somehow to “ marvel” reality which is the starting point, to raise her up to the level of symbol. In the drawings of “Connection”, human figures are receiving grotesque dimensions, their (over)accented extremities are floating in the space and in some transcendent way they’re connecting with each other, and in the same time they’re connecting the real and the unreal. Here the figures are posed in the classical central prospective, propounded in the geometrical space, which is subordinated to them. The space in these drawings is a servant to the figures. He does everything expected, so they could feel the m selves m ore pleasant, m ore comfortable in his e m brace: Adam and Eve are colligated in ecstatic dance, they’re becoming one body, the eye of the space is watching the girl from the street with cigarette in her arm and the house is growing from her head, one girl is watching herself in her ring…, and many poly-significant symbols: mask, ring, mirror, cube, tree, are accentuating the surreal and dream y atmosphere even more.
            In the drawing ink drawings the most important is drawing skill. For reaching the wanted effect, the lines must be quite precise, crystal clear and filled with contrasts, which are expressing the temperament of the artist. The drawings of “Connection” are “connecting” the grotesque figures of the drawing ink drawings of the great m aster Pieter Bruegel, the persons of the novels of Franz Kafka and the comics of Hugo Pratt, and through the narrative, clear and symbolic line, they’re “connecting” themselves with the drawings of the Chinese artist too.
            The drawing ink is a colored liquid which can’t be wiped out after the draining. The goal of the art is to put so m e trace in the existence, in the time, to “connect” people in one higher spiritual level, which is linking the art with the religion (“religare” means “connect” in Latin). The drawings fro m “Connection” also, through their apotheosis of Life and through their connection of the contradictions in several levels, after their draining, are putting the trace which is not wiping out.

About Jana Maneva Cuposka

An Exhibition from Jana Maneva Cuposka, artist from Republic of Macedonia will be open at Gallery MC (Gallery MC, 549 West 52nd Street, 8th floor), from 15th until 29th of August this year. On her first presentation outside Europe, the artist will exhibit around thirty drawings made in combine technique, in which grotesque figures are dominating.
Jana Maneva Cuposka born on December 22nd, 1970 in Skopje. She has graduated painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje, specialized painting in Paris and finished post-gradual studies of painting and unique modeling in glass at the Faculty of arts, architecture and design in Prague and in Academy of Fine Arts in Skopje, where she has received diploma of Master of Arts. Ms. Maneva Cuposka is a member of Association of Macedonian painters from 1996 and of Association of Macedonian fashion designers from 2005. Maneva Cuposka has participated in several group exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad and made several individual exhibitions in Skopje (1996), Prague (1999), Paris (2000), Skopje (2004), Ohrid (2006) and Skopje (2006).

Maneva Cuposka has realized several performances and video-art projects and is also active in photography and fashion design. She works as an associate professor at the Faculty of art and design at the European University in Skopje.

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