Exhibition of Gligor Chemerski "Events and Signs of the Land of Macedon" in the halls of the Gallery of Art

December 9, 2014 at 17.00 the Russian Academy of Arts, the Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts and the Gral Gallery in the halls of the Gallery of Arts at ul. Prechistenka, 19, presents an exhibition of works by the famous artist, graphic artist, mosaic artist, member of the Macedonian Academy of Sciences and Arts, honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts Gligor Chemerski - "Events and Signs of the Land of Macedonia."

Gligor Chemerski was born in 1940 in the city of Kavadartsi in the Republic of Macedonia. He studied in Skopje, received an art education at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts in 1965. From 1969 to 1970, he studied in Paris as a state scholarship, after which he stayed for a long time in the French capital, actively working and exhibiting his works at the Galerie du Fleuve. Continuing to improve his skills, the artist visited Egypt, Greece, Holland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden and America.

In 1962, the first personal exhibition of G. Chemersky was held in Skopje, followed by about thirty personal exhibitions held in many cities of Yugoslavia and Macedonia, as well as in the cities of Europe and America - Paris, Rome, Alexandria, Istanbul, Sofia, Prague, Graz, Bucharest, Moscow, Madrid, Copenhagen, Mexico City, New York, The Hague, Dublin, Belfast, Glasgow…

Many contemporaries of G. Chemersky - artists, writers, art historians and art critics - revered him as a classic. In their opinion, Chemersky’s work is unique in terms of the scale of his personality, as well as those ideological and aesthetic principles that he professes. He became one of the few artists who managed to reach the heights of the historical context of the fine arts of Macedonia, he is called the real bard of Macedonia.

In his works Chemerski resurrects the fate of his people, depicting dramatic events in the history of the country, which are also reflected in epic narratives and legends. Mythical creatures, dreams and dreams become reality in his paintings. These works reflect the desire of man to conquer chaos and fear of the unknown. A source of inspiration for the artist in his work on thematic cycles is the work of masters of ancient frescoes decorating medieval Macedonian churches.

Chemerski mosaics can be arbitrarily combined into a single series dedicated to the holy land of Macedonia. In his works, she appears as a land of groans and heartache, where songs and dances are intertwined, and where despair and hope never die.

Chemerski’s painting is a symbiosis of symbols and artifacts from different eras, he seeks to combine Byzantine painting with iconography of fine art as a whole by referring to the style of modern art, in particular, cubism and expressionism. In his work, visual images of various eras are combined through the spirit of modern painting, creating a truly national art.

The exhibition, conceived as a retrospective of the works of every decade of its creative activity, included about 50 paintings of various thematic focuses, combined into the most expressive cycles, in which the tragic and joyful are combined in an amazing way, from “Faces of Icons” to “Paris Kartinostas”, from “St. George and the Serpent” to “Mourning” and a series of images of Eve.

According to critics, G. Chemerski in his work continues to follow the covenant set forth by him in the essay "Living Byzantium" forty years ago, believing that these principles will serve as a guide for his followers, contemporary artists.

During the ceremony of awarding him the title of Honorary Member of the Russian Academy of Arts G. Chemerski donated his work “St. George of Ohrid” to the Academy.

The work of the painter Gligor Chemersky was noted by many national and international awards. His monumental works are in Skopje, Vrutok, Kavadartsi. For the Freedom Monument in Kochan, the artist executed a huge fresco measuring 320 sq.m.

The artist’s works are presented in the collections of the Vatican Museum, at the World Bank in Washington, at the LHB Internationale Handesbank in Germany, at the Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery, the Parliament of the Republic of Macedonia, the Museum of Modern Art in Belgrade, the University of Cyril and Methodius in Sofia, the Museum of Art in Fayetteville in America and other collections, as well as in private collections located in many cities in Europe and the United States.

The exhibition is open for visitors from December 10, 2014 to January 11, 2015.