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CULTURE

GROUP ZERO – NEW MURAL ON THE FAÇADE OF MKC

The National Gallery of Macedonia joined the initiative of the

Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Macedonia, so on Septem-

ber 7th, within the event White night it opened its doors for the

visitors in the three facilities under the umbrella of NGM – Mala

Stanica, Cifte Hammam and Daut Pasha Hammam. Within this

event the new mural of the group Zero was promoted as well.

The group „0“-Zero, in the 80s of the past century brought freshness

on the art scene at the time, as an example of extra-institutional

action. Their contribution for the group performances and public

shots is very important. They stopped to operate in 1990 in order to

be reunited in 2010 through their retrospective group exhibition in

the National Gallery of Macedonia. Their return to the art scene was

also marked in 2001 when they were Macedonian representatives at

the 54th Venetian Bienalle. The next year they had an exhibition in

New York.

30 years after the first mural performed in the hall of the Youth The new mural of Group Zero of the Youth
Cultural Center, the group ZERO once again united with almost Cultural Center
complete composition and in order to prepare a new one. This

time from the external side, and completely finished on Sep-

tember 7 within the event White nights. On a surface of 7.8 x 7.6

meters, the presented strokes include the ones of Bedi Ibrahim,

Aleksandar Stankovski, Zlatko Trajkovski, Sinisha Cvetkovski,

Zoran Janevski, Robert Mihajlovski, Gorancho Gjorgjievski, Stefan

Shashkov and Vlado Manchevski – Marso.

In addition to the artistic value, this mural is important for Sko-

pje from another aspect as well. Apart from the several wall

surfaces through the city which can be proud of their wonder- detail from the mural of the Youth Cultural Center
ful graffiti (which, by the way, are at a serious level of street-art

gestures), the city currently cannot boast with some serious artistic intervention from this field. In the middle

of the eighties of the past century, several murals were realized in Skopje by our eminent artists now, however

they were all destroyed in the meantime.

I’m having a conversation with Filip Jovanovski, one of the curators.

Concerts, performances, discussions. What were we able to
learn at your “Faculty for things which cannot be taught”?

The second stage of the AKTO festival of modern art popped up in
September in Skopje. From September 23rd to September 28th the
premises of Cinema Kultura, Mobile/mounting gallery, the building
of the railway station, Kapan Han were all occupied, and there
were fewer contents in Channel 103 and Radio bar. POP AP AKTO
in Bitola opens the topics for the political power of the collectives
and the importance of the common action which can create new
relations and structures and change the stagnant / exiting course of
events. The program in Skopje supplemented these ideas. Actually,
a condition was problematized where sometimes the very societies
are located i.e. how the captured spirit sometimes stupefies and
marginalizes the sharpest senses producing a general Palanka
context.

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