{"id":7111,"date":"2023-11-16T15:06:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T22:06:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fccsartwork\/?p=7111"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T17:30:07","slug":"7-x-7-macedonian-and-canadian-graphic-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/fccsartwork\/2023\/11\/16\/7-x-7-macedonian-and-canadian-graphic-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"7 X 7 Macedonian and Canadian Graphic Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the unique things about the varied media of printmaking is that print artists tend to work in multiples and they tend to work on paper (or a paper-like substrate).\u00a0 These two characteristics open up a great many opportunities for exchange and exhibition.\u00a0 Works made in multiple could, literally, be exhibited in different exhibitions at the farthest reaches of the globe at the same time.\u00a0 And, being on paper, those works are relatively easy to ship from one location to another.\u00a0 In that spirit, a long history of international printmaking exchanges and exhibitions have been established.\u00a0 As a result, there is an extremely open dialogue between artists practicing in very different geographies.\u00a0 The exhibition 7 X 7 Macedonian and Canadian Graphic Artists<\/em> was conceived with that in mind.<\/p>\n

Both Canada and Macedonia have played significant roles in the nurturing of contemporary printmaking.\u00a0 The International Graphic Triennial in Bitola and the newly established International Biennial of Miniature Graphics and Drawings have, over the last thirty years brought the work of over 5000 print artists to the Balkan region.\u00a0 And, the three long-standing international print exhibitions in Canada, the Biennnale Internationale d\u2019Estampe Contemporaine de Trois-Rivieres; the Biennial International Miniature Print Exhibition (Vancouver); and the Okanagan Print Triennial (Kelowna and Vernon) have similarly brought the work of contemporary world-class artists to this country.<\/p>\n

The works in 7 X 7 have already been exhibited in Bitola, Macedonia at the Cultural and Informative Center and have travelled across Canada for presentations and panel discussions in Halifax, Montreal and Toronto before landing for a final exhibition at UBC Okanagan\u2019s FINA Gallery.\u00a0 It is perhaps fitting that the 7 X 7<\/em> exhibition began in Bitola and is concluding in Kelowna \u2013 both are sites of significant international print exhibitions.<\/p>\n

In his catalogue essay for this exchange exhibition, Besant poses a question about \u201cwhether there might be particular collective identities emerge from either group\u201d of artists.\u00a0 Contemplating that query is something left to the individual viewers but the opportunity to see these works and to consider the broader implications of exchange between international artists remains extremely valuable in the contemporary art world.<\/p>\n

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Artist represented in 7 X 7 are:<\/p>\n

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Segej Andreevski\u00a0 \u00a0Macedonia<\/p>\n

Bonnie Baxter\u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Derek Michael Besant\u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Trajce Blazevski\u00a0 \u00a0Macedonia<\/p>\n

Atanas Botev\u00a0 \u00a0 Macedonia<\/p>\n

Mark Bovey\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Sean Caulfield\u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Briar Craig\u00a0 \u00a0 Canada<\/p>\n

Miroslava Cvetovikj\u00a0 \u00a0 Macedonia<\/p>\n

Ladislav Cvetkovski\u00a0 \u00a0 Macedonia<\/p>\n

Vlado Goreski\u00a0 \u00a0 Macedonia<\/p>\n

Libby Hague\u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Gerald Hushlak\u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Svetlana Jakimovska Rodikj\u00a0 Macedonia<\/p>\n

Slavica Janeshlieva\u00a0 Macedonia<\/p>\n

Guy Langevin\u00a0 \u00a0Canada<\/p>\n

Jo Ann Lanneville\u00a0 Canada<\/p>\n

Ivana Nasteski\u00a0 \u00a0Macedonia<\/p>\n

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