Art that speaks to the language of silence

The exhibition of the renowned Macedonian artist Pavle Kuzmanovski, who opened last night at the Kavadarci Museum Gallery, undoubtedly for the Kavadarci audience was a rare opportunity to experience his work in full power, from the intimacy of portraits, through the media. The beautiful references to works that were exhibited in the Museum Gallery was also a beautiful opportunity to see a small in volume of retrospective of his huge artwork, which is an important segment of contemporary Macedonian art.

The opening of the exhibition began with monodrams for Tsar Samuel and Krste Petkov Misirkov in the interpretation of Done Donev, a playwright, actor and director.
– There are painters painting to portray, Pavle Kuzmanovski has created to discover more than 60 years. He does not paint everything he sees, but everything he feels. He deserves his most famous cycle of works « Witnesses », which represents a strong artistic and spiritual comment on the human situation, collective memory and the lasting values ​​of society. In these works, the figure gets a symbolic dimension, carrying the weight of experiences, silence and historically deposited meanings. « Witnesses » are not just pictures – they are mute observers of time, but also its active interpreters. That is why Kuzmanovski’s art is deeply human, sincere and emotional, she speaks to the language of silence, but leaves a strong echo to the public. Pavle Kuzmanovski image with respect for nature, towards man, to life. In his world, the color is thought, the line is a feeling, and every picture is a careful attempt to catch something that is by its nature fleeting – underlined the curator of the exhibition Trajce Cvetkov.

In the works of Pavle Kuzmanovski the world lives as it is as it represents it from within. Every picture has no noise, no imposition, there is only deep, persistent honesty, non -lying color, no hiding form. Every expression, view, facial structure or line of one landscape is gained. In every portrait there is silence that speaks to a thousand words, and the faces are not just models, they are metaphors. Each portrait is a scene of an internal monologue, and the figures carry weight, not as weight but as a lasting truth.

They are not portrayed, they are exposed, while by the dead nature the author captures the melancholy of the moment, apparently ordinary, but already disappeared because every fruit, every shadow is a moment of eternity inscribed in the painting memory,
Pavle Kuzmanovski was born in Tetovo where he owns an atelier and a huge collection of works of art. He has realized an impressive number of exhibitions (more than 250), winning the most important awards in Macedonia in the field of culture and art.