Alexander Calder

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

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.