Text source: ‘Artists in Britain Since 1945’ by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)
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
Text 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
Born in Belgrade | 1949
Prespa Lake, 1976
wood, plastic bags, water 90х100
Object (Man and Bird), 1973-74
glass, plastic scotch tape holder, scotch tape, 88х34х30cm
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.
Born in Zelevo, Macedonia | 1938.
We present two of many artworks of Tome which are included in the collection of MoCA. His works are entitled “First Big Festivity”, 1974, metal 74 х 50 х 17см and Forms of Nature, 1978, terra-cotta.