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GORAN MICEVSKI / NEKLASIFIKOVANO

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Goran Micevski / neklasifikovano

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neklasifikovano

Izložba Neklasifikovano Gorana Micevskog predstavlja konstelaciju fotografija, u kojima nit vodilju, kao i u prethodnim umetničkim poduhvatima ovog umetnika, čini promišljanje medija fotografije. U pitanju su radovi izvedeni, tradicionalnim, analognim fotografskim postupkom čije je neupitno svojstvo beleženje određenog stanja stvari, situacija koje su se našle ispred objektiva, bilo da su režirane ili ne. Prisutnost takve vrste realnosti u fotografskoj slici, obeležene svojstvom „to je bilo“, skopčana je sa prikazivačkom karakteristikom fotografije, njenim inherentnim konstitutivnim elementom. Unutar modernističkog projekta autokritike medija umetničkog izražavanja, koja je bila usmerena ka eliminaciji prikazivačkog i traganju za alternativnim strategijama postojanja umetničkog dela, fotografija kao takva nije mogla biti podvrgnuta redukcionističkom procesu.1 Ona je pak na različite načine, tragajući za svojm inherentnim svojstvima, upravo kroz režim reprezentacije, u delima umetnika i fotografa od avangardnih, dvadesetih godina prošlog veka do danas, uspevala da se na nove, sveže načine poveže sa realnošću i uspostavi osobeni projekat dekonstrukcije i propitivanja sopstvenog medija. Fotografsko delovanje Gorana Micevskog svesno je važnosti ovog procesa i angažovano učestvuje u kritičkom preispitivanju fotografskog medija i njegovih kompleksnih spona sa društvom, ideologijom, sistemom umetnosti ali i ličnim intuitivnim saznanjima i otkrovenjima. Upravo automatska, prikazivačka karakteristika fotografije, koja je bazirana na proizvodnji slike pomoću fotoaparata, u okviru izložbe Neklasifikovano daje Goranu Micevskom širok opseg za konceptualno mišljenje. Fotografska reprodukcija obuhvata dvosmislenost relacije neselektivno - selektivno. Neselektivnost se ogleda u sposobnosti fotografije da kroz automatizovanu reprezentaciju obuhvati mnoštvo pojavnih fenomena, procesa i objekata, što ovom umetniku omogućava da kroz svoje radove razvija tezu o suštinski obuhvatnoj prirodi fotografije u odnosu na druge umetničke medije. Pošavši od fotografskog rada japanskog

umetnika Hiroši Sugimoto-a, koji je eksplicitno pokazao da medij fotografije, nasuprot uvreženom mišljenju, obuhvata medij filma, Goran Micevski putem radova kao što su Mindgames, Glineni golubovi, Mrtva priroda sa kanabisom, Neonska bašta, Biserno polje, Oaza i Vatromet ukazuje da fotografija, zapravo, sadrži i uspostavlja kompleksne relacije sa drugim izrazima kao što su umetničke intervencije, instalacije, land art, video i performans, posebno se osvrćući na performativnu osobenost samog fotografskog čina, naročito u radovima kao što su Crni šator i Grafiti. Fotografija, kao što je pokazala istorija, učestvuje u menjanju ideje o umetnosti, njenoj prirodi i uslovima recepcije umetničkog dela. U tom smislu naziv izložbe Neklasifikovano dobija novi značenjski legitimitet, dok se fotografisanje kao aktivnost proširuje daleko izvan trenutnog, automatizovanog snimka. Međutim, neklasifikovano ne isključuje kategoriju selektivnog, koja na svoj način fundamentalno konstituiše fotografski medij i učestvuje u upletenosti fotografije u vremenski tok njenog nastajanja, bilo da se radi o dužini ekspozicije ili pak promišljenom procesu građenja fotografske slike, koji joj prethodi. Fotografija je eksplicitno selektivna metoda, zasnovana na izboru onoga sto se snima ali njena svesna upotreba ostavlja i otvara prostor za slučaj, spontanost i proboj neselektivnog. Upravo u ovom prostoru odigravaju se događaji, kojima se mogućnosti za naknadnu recepciju i tumačenje fotografije intenzivno proširuju, kako za posmatrača tako i za samog fotografa. Zvezdano nebo, Mindgames, Neonska bašta, Crni šator kao i većina fotografija na ovoj izložbi mogu se čitati u datom ključu, dok radovi poput Putokaza i Još jednom o nečistoj savesti, indirektno upućuju na promenljivo značenje fotografija u odnosu na kontekst, na njihovu pokretljivost i stalno skretanje od trasiranog, fiksiranog smisla. Time fotografja kao označitelj, sopstvenim potencijalima istovremeno različitog klasifikovanja, može učestvovati u demaskiranju funkcionisanja sistema označavanja, njihovih ideoloških premisa i uspostavljanja označenog, Bi

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odnosno smisla generisanog određenim diskursom. Većina fotografija Gorana Micevskog mogu se posmatrati kao lepe slike, komentari na društvenu stvarnost, konceptualno-estetički modeli za stanje stvari u svetu, zatim, kao analiza medija i istorijsko-umetničke tradicije, ili, kao sve to zajedno, čija sinteza uključuje mnogo više. Znanje koje je potrebno određuje na koji način će se odvijati proces tumačenja ali njegov nedostatak je i poziv na dijalog, otvorenost ka novim uvidima.Estetska dimenzija zauzima bitno mesto u fotografskoj praksi Gorana Micevskog i podrazumeva razrađenu kompoziciju, tačno određeno svetlo, svest o perspektivi. Modernistička autokritika sprovedena u fotografskom mediju vodila je ka odbacivanju klasične estetike slike ali je takođe predstavljala i zahtev za novim vidom piktorijalne svesti. Dakle, situacija je mnogo komleksnija od jednostavnog odbacivanja ili negiranja estetskog elementa u anagažovanim i društveno funkcionalnim tendencijama, zbog toga što su mogućnosti za formalnu kompoziciju u fotografiji bile same po sebi donete na istorijsku scenu evolucijom fotografskog medija upravo u kontekstu avangardne umetnosti.2 Shvativši ovakvu dvostruku dinamiku egzistencije fotografske slike i njenih inherentnih reprezentacijskih svojstava, Goran Micevski, takođe, lično i intuitivno, oslobađa potencijal lepote u svojim fotografijama upućujući na to da uključivanje kategorije lepog ne mora imati anestezirajući efekat po osvešćeni, kritički potencijal fotografske slike, već da ona može učestvovati u građenju relevantanog modela promišljanja egzistencije.

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1 Jeff Wall, „Marks of Indifference“: Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art, originalno objavljeno u: Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, Recondsidering the Object of Art, 1965-1975, exh. cat,Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995, 247-267, http://parsonssummerphoto.blogspot.com/2010/07/jeff-wall-marks-of-indifference.html (32-44), 32.

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Goran Micevski's photo exhibition Unclassified is a constellation of photographs, where the common thread is, like in previous artistic ventures of this artist, a reflection on the photographic medium. The works have been executed in the traditional analog photograph technique, which could be defined by one of its unquestionable properties: recording of a certain state of affairs, of situations (whether prearranged or not) which turned up before the lens. The presence of this kind of reality in a photografic image, marked by „this was“, is linked with the presentational character of photography – its inherent, constitutive element. In the modernist project of artistic media's auto critique, oriented towards the elimination of the presentational and a quest for alternative strategies of existence of the work of art, photography as such could not have been subjected to a reductionist process.1 However, through searching for its inherent properties in the representational works of photographers and artists since the vanguard 1920s till the present day, it managed to connect with reality in new, fresh ways and to establish a specific project of deconstructing and reexamining itself as a medium. Photographic work of Goran Micevski shows that this artist, conscious how significant this process is, participates in the critical reconsideration of the photographic medium and its complex ties with society, ideology and art system without neglecting his personal, intuitive insights and revelations.The authomatic, presentational nature of photography, based on the production of image by a camera, is what gives Goran Micevski and his works included in the Unclassified, much room for conceptual thinking. Photographic reproduction includes ambiguities of the relation between unselective and selective. Unselectiveness is reflected in the capacity of photography to comprise, thanks to the authomatized representation, a multitude of phenomena, processes and objects, enabling the artist to develop a thesis on the essentially comprehensive nature of photography as compared to other artistic media. Starting from the

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photographic work of the Japanese artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, who explicitly shows that, contrary to conventional opinion, photography includes the film medium, Goran Micevski in his works such as Mindgames, Clay Pigeons, Still Nature with Cannabis, Neon Garden, Pearl Field, Oasis and Fireworks suggests that photography actually contains and establishes complex relations with other means of expression such as artistic interventions, installations, land art, video and performance, particularlly refering to performative characteristic of the photographic act itself (specially in Black Tent and Graffiti. As history has demonstrated, photography contributes to the changing of ideas about the nature and reception of arts. In this sense, the title of the exhibition (Unclassified) gains new semantic legitimacy, while the activity of taking photos is extended far beyond from an instantaneous, authomatized shot. However, „unclassified“ does not exclude the category of selective, which fundamentally constitutes photographic medium and also contributes to a photograph's intertwinement with the temporal course of it own production, whether by the exposure time or through a reflected process of a photographic image construction. Photography is explicitly a selective method, based on the selection of an object to be taken by camera, but its conscious use makes room for the accidental and the spontaneous, as well as for a breakthrough of the unselective. This is the space where events unfold, intensively expanding possibilities for a retrospective reception and interpretation of a photograph both by its viewer and its photographer. Starry Sky, Mindgames, Neon Garden, Black Tent and most other photographs displayed here can be read in a given clue, while works like Signposts and Once More on Bad Conscience indirectly refer to the changeable meaning of photographs with respect to their contexts, mobility and deviation from the marked, fixed sense. Thus a photograph as a signifier, through its potential to simultaneously make different classifications, can help Pu

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us to denounce the functioning of the signification system and its ideological premises, as well as to establish the signified, i. e. the meaning generated by a specific discours. Most Goran Micevski's photographs can be viewed as beautiful pictures, comments on social reality, conceptually esthetic models of the state of affairs in the world or as an analysis of the media and tradition of the history of art, or as a synthesis of all these and much more. A necessary knowledge determines the way in which the interpretation process will run, but the lack of it is also an invitation to a dialogue, openness to new insights.Esthetical dimension occupies an important place in Goran Micevski's photographic practice and implies an elaborate composition, precisely defined light, the consciousness of perspective. Modernist auto critique in the photographic medium led to the rejection of the classic esthetic of image, but also set the request for a new kind of pictorial consciousness. Therefore, it is much more complex than a mere rejection or negation of the esthetic element in engaged and socially functional artistic tendencies, because the possibilities for a formal composition in photography were brought onto the historical scene through the evolution of the photographic medium in the context of avant-garde.2 Having grasped this dual dynamics of photographic image's existence and its inherent representational properties, Goran Micevski also releases, personally and intuitively, the potential of beauty in his photographs, suggesting that the inclusion of „beautiful“ does not necessarilly anesthetizes the conscious, critical potential of the photographic image, which is capable to participate in the construction of a relevant model of reflected existence.

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1 Jeff Wall, “Marks of Indifference”: Aspects of Photography in, or as, Conceptual Art, originally published in: Ann Goldstein and Anne Rorimer, Reconsidering the Object of Art, 1965-1975, exh. cat, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, 1995, 247-267, http://parsonssummerphoto.blogspot.com/2010/07/jeff-wall-marks-of-indifference.html (32-44), 32.

2 Ibid, 34.

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Izdavač: Kulturni centar BeogradaZa izdavača: Mia DavidSavremena kretanja, sveska 551Savet Galerije: Маrinа Маrtić, Sаšа Јаnjić, Gоrdаnа Dоbrić Kustоs: Аlеksаndrа Еstеlа Bјеlicа Мlаdеnоvić Prevod: Slаvicа МilеtićDizajn i prelom: Borut Vild, Sara RadonjaŠtampa: Grafolik, BeogradTiraž: 200Postavka izložbe: Slаvоlјub Ćirić

Goran Micevski

Goran Micevski (1977) je završio Fakultet primenjenih umetnosti u Beogradu, odsek fotografija. Ključne odrednice za fotografsku praksu ovog pasioniranog putnika i šetača jesu odanost analognoj tehnici, konstantna promišljanja samog medija, kao i istraživanje odnosa fotografije i konteksta kojima se tematski bavi (umetnost, društvo, svakodnevno). Izlagao je na više grupnih i samostalnih izložbi u zemlji i inostranstvu. Micevski je dobitnik nagrada na festivalima Media Forum u okviru Moskovskog filmskog festivala, kao i nagrade na festivalu Alternative Film/Video u Beogradu.

Fotografiji pristupam kao otvorenom polju; iako je svaka slika inicirana određenim kontekstom, posmatraču prepuštam krajnju produkciju smisla. Ovo otvara prostor za nove nesporazume (kako od aviona napraviti zvezde padalice), greške u čitanju (uputstva za upotrebu slika) ili zamenu teza (ti meni moju, ja tebi tvoju) – što mi, priznajem, pričinjava neizmerno zadovoljstvo! – ali i ozbiljnije lapsuse koji posmatrača izvode na klizav teren; katkada i u sam centar ringa, prilično daleko od najbližeg rukohvata.

Goran Micevski (1977) graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Applied Arts (Department of Photography). Key words for the photographic practice of this passionate traveller and walker are loyalty to analog photography techniques, permanent reflexions on the medium itself and research on the relation between photography and the contexts and topics he explores (art, society, everyday life). He exhibited his works in numerous group and solo shaws in the country and abroad. Micevski is a recepient of Media Forum Festival Award of the Moscow International Film Festival and the award of Alternative Film/Video Festival in Belgrade.

I approach photography as an open field; though each photograph was initiated by a specific context, I confer the ultimate production of meaning to the viewer. This opens the way to new misunderstandings (how to transform an air-plain into shooting stars), reading errors (instructions for the use of images) or red herrings (you stick to your argument, I stick to mine) – all these giving me, I must admit, immense pleasure! – but also more severe fallacies, leading the observer to a slippery ground, sometimes even to the centre of the ring, rather far from the closest handrail.

goranmicevski.wordpress.com

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CIP - Каталогизација у публикацијиНародна библиотека Србије, Београд

77.04:929 Мицевски Г.(083.824)77.04(497.11)"20"(083.824)

МИЦЕВСКИ, Горан, 1977- Goran Micevski : neklasifikovano : [8-25.avgusta 2012., Likovna galerija, Beograd] = [Goran Micevski : unclassified : 8th-25th August 2012, Art Gallery, Belgrade] / [prevodSlavica Miletić]. - Beograd : Kulturni centarBeograda, 2012 (Beograd : Grafolik). - 16 str. : fotogr. ; 22 cm. - (Savremena kretenja; #sv. #551)

Uporedo srp. tekst i engl. prevod. - Tiraž 200. - Str. 3-13: Neklasifikovano = Unclassified / Maida Gruden. - Goran Micevski: str. 14.

ISBN 978-86-7996-091-7

a) Мицевски, Горан (1977-) - Фотографије - Изложбени каталозиCOBISS.SR-ID 192456716

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Goran Micevski NEKLASIFIKOVANO8–30. avgusta 2012.likovna galerijaKnez Mihailova 6, Beograd

Goran Micevski UNCLASSIFIED8th–30th August 2012art Gallery Knez Mihailova 6, Belgrade N

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