Robert Gligorov

OPENING: Tuesday June 7th, 2005

Robert Gligorov (Kriva Palanka, Macedonia, 1960, lives and works in Milan, Italy) is returning to Galleria Pack, set to inaugurate a new solo show four years after his previous exhibition with the gallery.

“The show is entitled Divina, and gathers together a large body of images by the artist, the fruit of reflection that has led him to establish a dialogue using the most basic languages of creativity: painting, photography and sculpture.

In a room dedicated to painting we see large white canvases filled with organically plastic outlines, curved like living membranes, and almost Baroque in their serpentine exhaustion. But behind these forms we can make out human figures, the details of bodies, an almost tangible material that highlights their abstract force.

The space dedicated to photography takes a closer look at the body in action, using it in unusual and sometimes shocking ways that are at once realistic and indefinable. Finally, a large sculpture concludes a complex inquiry into the ways in which the human form can be molded through truth and imagination; on ways of viewing the world as a gigantic and articulated human body.

For Gligorov, all three are perfectly amalgamated linguistic routes, united by moving and unique images that become increasingly catalytic with the passage of time. They confirm his meticulous inquiry into the potential of the human body, into the relationship between image and artifice, into the boundary between cultural impact and the power of the media.

Gligorov’s solo show reveals an artist of profound sensibility. A man who experiments with diverse languages and materials, addressing themes and intuitions that are never repetitive. He is well-aware that the content of art requires massive impact, providing that visual shockwave that brings to light the plausible behind the unbelievable.”

Paola Nicita

Robert Gligorov