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Violeta Chapovska Artist
Violeta Chapovska
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Sea, Salt and Silk
SALT exhibition
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Cité Internationale des arts, Paris
Video and Photography
NES ART Residency
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Embroidery, beading and printmedia
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Celestial Series 2023
Water colours and drawings
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vimeo.com/violetacapovska
ArtsHub Multimedia review: Sea, Salt and Silk by Mem Capp
Visit to my studio during Covid-19, Artists Diaries, National Gallery of Macedonia
Exhibition catalogue SALT, Academia
Violeta Chapovska, Виолета Чаповска, Artists Diaries, National Gallery of Macedonia
SALT, Violeta Čapovska, Opening 24 December
Radio Free Europe, Radio Slobodna Evropa
Nova Makedonija, Salt Open Graphic Studio, Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia
Angela O'Rourke, The Love-sick Girl: Series On Hysteria, un Magazine 2004
Ruth Lerner, Australian Art Review Nov-Dec 2012, Issue 36
Abbotsford Convent studio
SBS Radio
Land-Print Project 1994 Exhibition Catalogue
Bodily Fluids 1999, Exhibition Catalogue
Уметничка галерија Скопје- Даут-пашин амам/ Art Gallery Skopje- Daut Pasin Hamam Maj 1996 / May 1996
Gender Check: Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas
Violeta Chapovska Artist
Violeta Chapovska
CV
Bio
News
Projects
Exhibitions
Sea, Salt and Silk
SALT exhibition
Exhibition Catalogue Essays
Gallery
Land-Print Projects
Cité Internationale des arts, Paris
Video and Photography
NES ART Residency
Installation
Embroidery, beading and printmedia
Printmaking
Celestial Series 2023
Water colours and drawings
Contact
Shop
Links
vimeo.com/violetacapovska
ArtsHub Multimedia review: Sea, Salt and Silk by Mem Capp
Visit to my studio during Covid-19, Artists Diaries, National Gallery of Macedonia
Exhibition catalogue SALT, Academia
Violeta Chapovska, Виолета Чаповска, Artists Diaries, National Gallery of Macedonia
SALT, Violeta Čapovska, Opening 24 December
Radio Free Europe, Radio Slobodna Evropa
Nova Makedonija, Salt Open Graphic Studio, Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia
Angela O'Rourke, The Love-sick Girl: Series On Hysteria, un Magazine 2004
Ruth Lerner, Australian Art Review Nov-Dec 2012, Issue 36
Abbotsford Convent studio
SBS Radio
Land-Print Project 1994 Exhibition Catalogue
Bodily Fluids 1999, Exhibition Catalogue
Уметничка галерија Скопје- Даут-пашин амам/ Art Gallery Skopje- Daut Pasin Hamam Maj 1996 / May 1996
Gender Check: Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas
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Cité Internationale des arts, Paris
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NES ART Residency
Installation
Embroidery, beading and printmedia
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Celestial Series 2023
Water colours and drawings
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vimeo.com/violetacapovska
ArtsHub Multimedia review: Sea, Salt and Silk by Mem Capp
Visit to my studio during Covid-19, Artists Diaries, National Gallery of Macedonia
Exhibition catalogue SALT, Academia
Violeta Chapovska, Виолета Чаповска, Artists Diaries, National Gallery of Macedonia
SALT, Violeta Čapovska, Opening 24 December
Radio Free Europe, Radio Slobodna Evropa
Nova Makedonija, Salt Open Graphic Studio, Museum of City of Skopje, Macedonia
Angela O'Rourke, The Love-sick Girl: Series On Hysteria, un Magazine 2004
Ruth Lerner, Australian Art Review Nov-Dec 2012, Issue 36
Abbotsford Convent studio
SBS Radio
Land-Print Project 1994 Exhibition Catalogue
Bodily Fluids 1999, Exhibition Catalogue
Уметничка галерија Скопје- Даут-пашин амам/ Art Gallery Skopje- Daut Pasin Hamam Maj 1996 / May 1996
Gender Check: Rollenbilder in der Kunst Osteuropas
Small Lake, Pelister el. 2180m. Macedonia (Copy)

Small Lake, Pelister el. 2180m. Macedonia The Land Print Projects include the site-specific works: Small Lake, Pelister (1994), I and the eye(1996) and Salt (2018). All three projects took place at the glacial lake Small Lake, Pelister, Republic of Macedonia (altitude of 2,180m). Dr Suzana Milevska has coined the term 'land print' to represent the connection between the artist’s printmaking and site-specific land work. It addresses the theme of topology of the sublime through the use of video work, photographs and objects. The Land Print Projects are ephemeral, including interventions with various objects and materials in and around the lake. The interconnectedness of objects sourced from different cultural and historic sites and times, concerning the self and the lake, represents the core idea of the Land-print Projects.

 Mirror, 1994 (Copy)

Mirror, 1994. Land-Print Project I, Small Lake, Pelister National Park (el. 2180m.) Macedonia Site-specific performance including a mirror, 4 glass ball object, 3 circular zinc plates and a bottle with blue pigment. "The first phase, observing her image in the mirror, in which she simultaneously peers out at the reflection of the lake, is necessary to identify the limits of her own body. Like in the “mirror stage”, well known from the psychoanalytical discourse (Lacan, Kristeva) in which the subject identifies oneself only through the fragmentation of “self’ and “other”, (the own reflection in the mirror), Capovska locates her own identity out of the boundaries of her own body-in her reflection but, at the same time, in the reflection of the lake on the same surface of the mirror” (Milevska 1994). Object: mirror. Author of the project and video: Violeta Capovska. Published by: Museum of the City Of Skopje, Macedonia. Curator of the project and author of the lecture, The Small Lake: Topography of the Exemplification of the Sublime: Dr Suzana Milevska. Photography and video camera: Robert Jankuloski. Guides to the lake: Zlatko Sterjov and Simeon Girovski Sponsor: Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia

Bottle with blue pigment, Land Print Project 1, 1994 (Copy)

Bottle with blue pigment, Land Print Project 1, 1994. Land-Print Project I, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, el. 2280m. Macedonia. Site-specific performance. Object: bottle with blue pigment. Published by: Museum of the City of Skopje, Macedonia. Sponsor: Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia. The first project. Land Print Project (1994) is concerned with the theme of location of identity and the ecological integrity of the lake. It draws on the cultural theory of identity, self and nature.

Sound wave, Land Print Project II, 1996 (Copy) View fullsize

Sound wave, Land Print Project II, 1996 Land-print project II, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, el. 2180m. Macedonia. Site-specific performance, lithograph on silk chiffon. Guides to the lake: Blagoja Lazarevski and Mile Dimitrovski. Courtesy of the artist. Published by: Makedonska kniga, Skopje. Author of the catalogue text “Walking along the edge of Invisibility”: Dr Suzana Milevska. Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia.

Sign on the snow, Land Print Project II, 1996 (Copy) View fullsize

Sign on the snow, Land Print Project II, 1996 Land - Print Project II, Pelister National Park, desert sand, snow. Site-specific performance. Courtesy of the artist

 Magnifying glass, 1996 (Copy) View fullsize

Magnifying glass, 1996 Land Print Project II, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, el. 2280m. Macedonia. Site-specific performance. Object: the magnifying glass. Author of the catalogue text “Walking along the edge of Invisibility”: Dr Suzana Milevska. Published by: Makedonska kniga, Skopje. Sponsor: Soros Centre for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia. Guides to the lake: Blagoja Lazarevski and Mile Dimitrovski.

Glass, 1996 (Copy) View fullsize

Glass, 1996 Land-print project II, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, el. 2280m. Macedonia. Site-specific performance. Object: glass. Author of the catalogue text “Walking along the edge of Invisibility”: Dr Suzana Milevska. Published by: Makedonska kniga, Skopje. Sponsor: Soros Center for Contemporary Arts- Skopje, Macedonia. Guides to the lake: Blagoja Lazarevski and Mile DImitrovski. The second project, 'I and the eye' (1996), continues to engage with the aesthetics of the sublime, exploring the philosophical consequences of the metaphorical and rational concepts of nature. The project explores the interplay of different meanings (signifiers) between the objects, the lake and the self. The second project considers the scientific and rational view of the lake.

Mixing salt, Land Print Project III, 2018 (Copy)

Mixing salt, Land Print Project III, 2018 Land Print Project III, 2018, site-specific performance, continues Čapovska’s ongoing investigation into the location of identity and ecological integrity of the Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (elevation 2,180m).

Dusk, 2018 (Copy) View fullsize

Dusk, 2018 Land Print Project III, SALT, paper, site-specific performance. Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (elevation 2,180m). Videography and Photography: Istok Chapovski.

Salt, video still 2019 (Copy)

Salt, video still 2019 Salt, video still 2019. Digital video, sound, colour, duration: 04:31 min. Videography: Istok Chapovski. Sound composition: Gorazd Čapovski, Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (el 2180 m). The idea of encircling the lake with a line of salt introduces the question of conservation and the fragile wish to protect the lake.. The salt is combined from Macedonia and Australia. Australian salt is harvested from a 5-million-year-old natural salt lake, situated in the remote regions of Western Australia- ‘Lake Crystal’.The Macedonian salt is a fine cooking salt, bought at the market in Skopje. It originates from Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The encircling of the lake lasts 20 minutes but is not fully completed. In the last few metres, the artist decides to return to the starting point.

Mixing  salt 2,  2018 (Copy) View fullsize

Mixing salt 2, 2018 Land Print Project III. Site-specific performance. Small Lake, Pelister National Park, Macedonia (elevation 2,180m). Photography and Videography: Istok Chapovski. Salt is chosen for its immunity towards decay, as well as its reflectiveness. The central idea of the project is placing salt’s immutability in an unpredictable environment of the lake.

Small Lake, Pelister el. 2180m. Macedonia (Copy)
 Mirror, 1994 (Copy)
Bottle with blue pigment, Land Print Project 1, 1994 (Copy)
Sound wave, Land Print Project II, 1996 (Copy)
Sign on the snow, Land Print Project II, 1996 (Copy)
 Magnifying glass, 1996 (Copy)
Glass, 1996 (Copy)
Mixing salt, Land Print Project III, 2018 (Copy)
Dusk, 2018 (Copy)
Salt, video still 2019 (Copy)
Mixing  salt 2,  2018 (Copy)