Ars: časopis Ústavu Dejín Umenia Slovenskej Akadémie Vied (45.2012)

corne epic, while the Hollywood action spectacle
was mostly based upon some fantastic hypothesis,
upon things that seem real, but which we know can
never really happen.
Two artists from two different historical epochs,
two accomplished individuals in their professions.
Along with their physical similarity, the next thing
they hâve in common is their social status. Despite
being one of the best Macedonian actors, Vlado
Jovanovski has been constantly obstructed by the
clannish cultural oligarchy that had even suspended
him at a certain period of time. Although the prob-
lém is local, the artwork is a universal metaphor for
the position of the artist confronted by a merciless
capitalistic society.
Mondrian’s structural visuality becomes a kind
of a framework (both as a style reference and as
ambient scenography) of that imaginary world the
artist is so scrupulously creating in the direction of
curiosity, always setting aside convenience in order to
remind us of the cynical note of reality. Van Gogh’s
colonization — as a rétroactive deconstruction of
Mondrian’s artistic intellectuality — from the positions

10. Atanas Botev: Vlado,
2005, oil on canvas, 100
x 70 cm. Photo: Archive
of the author.

17. Atanas Botev: The
Bad Trip of Delacroix
Aroused by His Frequent
Confrontation ivith Ingres,
2007, oil on canvas, 130
X 162 cm. Photo: Archive
of the author.


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