Yane Calovski
12 Nov 2010 - 08 Jan 2011
Yane Calovski: Obsessive Setting
Opening: Friday, 12 November 2010, 6 - 9 p.m.
After the dream, they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another;
they decided to build a city like the one in the dream.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
On July 26th, 1963, Skopje (Macedonia) was hit and destroyed by a devastating earthquake. In 1965, a team of Japanese architects, ‘Kenzo Tange Associates’, was invited to compete for and eventually won the opportunity to construct a new Master Plan for the city. However, this original plan was never fully implemented.
Yane Calovski’s investigation of the process of articulating and executing Kenzo Tange’s Master Plan delves deep into the conflict between individual utopian dreams and those of a collective body. Calovski collects evidence of displacements and transformations through diverse narratives, scrutinizing the details of production, of failures and unrealized ambitions, and finally the causes for these lapses – here adding his artistic interpretation.
The project, entitled Obsessive Setting, has been developed specifically for ZAK | BRANICKA Gallery and continues Calovski’s ongoing Master Plan project.
Obsessive Setting, will manifest itself as a repository modular structure that serves as an ideal storage unit for possible processes and meaningful archives. Structurally, the unit refers directly to Kenzo Tange’s original architectural model which is currently stored in the Museum of the City of Skopje. Calovski’s object is made up of drawers, screens and mirrors. In addition, it provides its potential user with room for work and respite. The drawers’ contents (drawings, photographs, texts) and the screened videos, will change in the course of the exhibition, turning the object into a manifestation of Calovski’s obsessive, particle-by-particle reconstruction of Kenzo Tange’s extensive work. Calovski will also be consolidating a part of the original planning team and associates with whom during the course of the exhibition he will build the archive, as well as develop a context for responding to the original Master Plan by Kenzo Tange.
Yane Calovski’s work is conceptual and context-based. He has lived and worked in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands and Macedonia. Recent solo exhibitions include Ponder Pause Process (a Situation) at the Tate Britain (2010) and Hollow Land/ Master Plan at European Kunsthalle in Cologne (2009), as well as Manifesta 7 (2008). His works form part of the Deutsche Bank collection in London. He currently lives and works in Skopje.
More details about the artist and the exhibition can be found here:
http://zak-branicka.com/artists.php?artistsid=61
http://zak-branicka.com/exhibitions.php?section=upcoming
Opening: Friday, 12 November 2010, 6 - 9 p.m.
After the dream, they set out in search of that city; they never found it, but they found one another;
they decided to build a city like the one in the dream.
Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities
On July 26th, 1963, Skopje (Macedonia) was hit and destroyed by a devastating earthquake. In 1965, a team of Japanese architects, ‘Kenzo Tange Associates’, was invited to compete for and eventually won the opportunity to construct a new Master Plan for the city. However, this original plan was never fully implemented.
Yane Calovski’s investigation of the process of articulating and executing Kenzo Tange’s Master Plan delves deep into the conflict between individual utopian dreams and those of a collective body. Calovski collects evidence of displacements and transformations through diverse narratives, scrutinizing the details of production, of failures and unrealized ambitions, and finally the causes for these lapses – here adding his artistic interpretation.
The project, entitled Obsessive Setting, has been developed specifically for ZAK | BRANICKA Gallery and continues Calovski’s ongoing Master Plan project.
Obsessive Setting, will manifest itself as a repository modular structure that serves as an ideal storage unit for possible processes and meaningful archives. Structurally, the unit refers directly to Kenzo Tange’s original architectural model which is currently stored in the Museum of the City of Skopje. Calovski’s object is made up of drawers, screens and mirrors. In addition, it provides its potential user with room for work and respite. The drawers’ contents (drawings, photographs, texts) and the screened videos, will change in the course of the exhibition, turning the object into a manifestation of Calovski’s obsessive, particle-by-particle reconstruction of Kenzo Tange’s extensive work. Calovski will also be consolidating a part of the original planning team and associates with whom during the course of the exhibition he will build the archive, as well as develop a context for responding to the original Master Plan by Kenzo Tange.
Yane Calovski’s work is conceptual and context-based. He has lived and worked in the United States, Japan, the Netherlands and Macedonia. Recent solo exhibitions include Ponder Pause Process (a Situation) at the Tate Britain (2010) and Hollow Land/ Master Plan at European Kunsthalle in Cologne (2009), as well as Manifesta 7 (2008). His works form part of the Deutsche Bank collection in London. He currently lives and works in Skopje.
More details about the artist and the exhibition can be found here:
http://zak-branicka.com/artists.php?artistsid=61
http://zak-branicka.com/exhibitions.php?section=upcoming