Vladimir Temkov – Retrospective exhibition at Chifte hammam
Before the beginning of the summer period, we announce the 40-year retrospective opus of Vladimir Temkov in Chifte Hammam. The opening of the exhibition is scheduled for May 31, 2023 (Wednesday), at 8 p.m.
Vladimir Temkov has been present on the Macedonian and then Yugoslav art scene since 1980, and 40 years since his first solo exhibition. Since that period, he has participated in exhibitions in Macedonia and the then SFRY, as well as in many international exhibitions, colonies, symposia, etc. Over the years, he has fixed his visual quests. It creates its own thematic matrix with common features and composing elements of linear and chromatic solutions that reach an interesting level of expressiveness. Although he works on several thematic and conceptual cycles, the already established art modus in all cycles and its constant intertwining is quite evident. With the idea that color represents the apotheosis of light, our painter builds it from painting to painting, from cycle to cycle, his painting poetics where the primary matter is the color and the energy that it conveys. Vladimir Temkov’s identification stems not from artistic stylistic trend reasons but, above all, from the necessity of a professional attitude to work, with creative requirements that allowed him to complete the pictorial cycle of spatial metaphors as peculiar variations on a theme.
Temkov’s basic tendency is to create as he steps, to paint as he breathes. His ideal is natural simplicity, so he paints in a dynamic spirit with free and powerful moves, and at the same time calmly and contemplatively, conveying multivalued thought messages. This, in turn, leads to a dynamic composition of color in contact with nature, where, in fact, everything is in motion and changing. He draws inspiration from nature and natural resources, as well as from the spiritual sources of human society, from various fields such as literature, history, tradition, music, drama, science, life, nature, etc. His works show a series of phenomena from nature and memories of his wide cultural horizon, where in a lyrical-expressive way are presented the visible, but also the spiritual landscapes of his native Tikvesh. His works are dominated by the feeling of freedom, the freedom of colors and shapes, the intertwining of earth and sky, matter and spirit, the forms of reality, but also of the dream where the artist penetrates into the multilayeredness of the visible.
Biography
Born in Kavadarci in 1959, he comes from a working-class family. He completes his elementary education in “Strasho Pindzur” primary school in Kavadarci and then the Secondary art school and Pedagogical Academy in Skopje in the class of Professor Vancho Georgievski, graduating in the Faculty of Fine Arts – Department of Graphichs, in the class of professor Dr. Trajche Blazhevski. He obtaines his Master’s Degree in the Department of Painting of the Faculty of Fine Arts – Skopje in the class of prof. Blagoja Manevski.
He lives and works in Kavadarci on 13 Blazho Aleksov Str.
He is the founder and organizer of the International Art Colony “Kavadarci-Mihajlovo”, since 1996.
He was the organizer of the first Art Colony in 1982 in Rzhanovo-Kavadarci.
He is president of the Association of Fine Artists of Kavadarci, as well as Vice President of the Society of Fine Artists of Macedonia.
He has received many domestic and international awards in the field of fine arts. He has participated in a number of Art Colonies, symposia, seminars, etc.