Paragraphie & Paragraphie II
 Paragraphie & Paragraphie IIby Ana JovanovskaParagraphie is the outcome of a dialogue between three artists who, over several months, conceived and generated knowledge as an attempt to position the artistic practice in the current age or rather, to understand what the position of the artistic practice today is and can be. The zine works as an atlas of compiled knowledge that aims to emphasize issues regarding the artistic practice that have been and still are relevant. Paragraphie is to be shared and discussed for further circulation and continuation of the issues. The material used to make the zine is both original and found material such as google searches, screen shots, scanned books, online interviews, etc.  Courtesy of the author. Through the exploration and usage of past knowledge about art and what an artist is, the project seeks a way to liberate art according to the rules its creation should have followed in order to be accepted by society. Incorporated in the context of the contemporary situation resulting from the longstanding cultural and political repression that inevitably led to the degradation of art and artistic values, the project reassesses the result itself and all the parallels to that point. It uses the form of a fanzine, combining it with an art book, web atlas, references and graphs as a source, and at the same time shows itself as a presentation from research to educational. About the artists: Anastasia Pandilovska is an artist from Skopje with permanent residence in Amsterdam. She graduated from the Gerrit Rietveld Academy there in 2015. In 2016, she won the Eeckman Prize, a contemporary drawing award in Brussels. She has taken part in several exhibitions, including: Emptiness and the Infinite Space # nr01 (2017, Netherlands), Mémoires d’images récurrentes (2016, Belgium), Drawing in communal matter with Nam Chi Nguyễn (2016, Netherlands), For Spaces (2015, Finland). In January 2018, Pandilovska started a research project with the Lectorate Art & Public Space, which is focused on the importance of culture as commons when dealing with public space affected by political regimes and complex histories. Exploring the closeness with our environment, Pandilovska’s work is focused on the latent narratives of everyday life. Attracted by the things surrounding us, the way in which they appear in an instant, animated and active, she seeks ways to devise these moments and show their importance. Just to remind us that we may not have fully exhausted their meanings. Ana Jovanovska was born in Kumanovo, Macedonia. She got her Master’s Degree in Art from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje (2016). Obtaining a scholarship, she attended École supérieure d’arts & médias de Caen/Cherbourg in France (2013–2014). She is a recipient of the Best Graphics Award Dragutin Avramovski-Gute (2013) and the Grand Prix at the VIII Youth Spring Salon from NGM-Mala Stanica (2015). She participated in the XI Biennial of Youth, NGM-Mala Stanica (2015), featured her work at Imago Mundi (2016) and was nominated for the Young Artist of the Year Award (2016). She has published the book Collection of False Memories (2013–2016), the zine Along the Traces for PrivatePrint (2017) and the zine “Paragraphie” with Assemblage Atlas for the AKTO Festival of Contemporary Art (2017). Her participative project Mirrors is still ongoing. She has participated in more than 80 group exhibitions in Macedonia and abroad. Amir Karahasan is part of the Nama Kardel project with the artist Natasha Nedelkova. He graduated from the Department of Sculpture at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje in 2014. He has participated in a number of group exhibitions and projects, including: What a Time to Be Alive (Spain, 2016), After YU, Imaginarium: Contemporary Video Art from Macedonia (Great Britain, 2016), the AKTO Festival of Contemporary Art (Macedonia, 2016), Transitional Notions in Decay, DRIMON Festival (Macedonia, 2016). Text adapted from the author’s press materials ABOUT THE BOOKS Paragraphie II To purchase the books contact the author by EMAIL |