NIKOLA UZUNOVSKI

SNOW

Against the proliferation of images and messages that outbreak our capacity of perception daily, Nikola Uzunovski’s work seems to reinstate the value of emptiness and silence. Following Yves Klein’s steps, the artist directs the spectator with playful and innocent tricks just to abandon him afterwards in the middle of nothing. Combining an aggressive conceptual language and intimate subjects, Uzunovski provokes the spectator and turns him into necessary central character of his pieces. And as it happens in “Unsaid Wish or Snow”, turns his experiences, wishes and memories into the main material of his works –

Taken during the last three years in various locations visited by the artist, the over one hundred photographs that conform the series Snow are provocatively identical. Over exposed and printed on white photographic paper – which inevitably? remain untouched, question with their absolute whiteness and repetitive character the limits of art. Identifiable only through the description that goes with them – which contains technical details and the place and date in which they were taken, Uzunovski’s monochromes invite the spectator to imagine and recall what he has seen or believes he has seen. At the same time, they grant with a playful tone the absolute protagonism to the watcher and confer the sacred character traditionally reserved to the greatest works of art to his most meaningless experiences.

 

 

 

Snow, Helsinki, Finland, 2005
Snow, Inari, Finland, 2005
Snow, Ii, Finland, Finland, 2005
Snow, Oulu, Finland, 2005
Snow, Rovaniemi, Finland, 2005

Snow, Riihimaki, Finland, 2005

Snow, Tornio, Finland, 2005

Snow, Kemi, Finland, 2005

Snow, Saariselka, Finland, 2005

Snow, Simo, Finland , 2005

Snow, Sodankyla, Finland, 2005

Snow, Tervola, Finland, 2005

Snow, Ivalo, Finland, 2005

Snow, Are, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Falkenberg, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Galve, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Halmstad, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Ljunsdal, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Varberg, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Storlien, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Ranea, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Lulea, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Haaparanda, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Malmo, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Ostershund, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Stockholm, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Goteborg, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Lulea, Sweden, 2005

Snow, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2005

Snow, Helsingor, Denmark, 2005

Snow, Trondheim, Norway, 2005

Snow, Berlin, Germany, 2005

Snow, Biella, Italy, 2005

Snow, Milano, Italy, 2005

Snow, Venezia, Italy, 2006

Snow, Asiago, Italy, 2008

Snow, Bardonecchia, Italy, 2008

Snow, Brennero, Italiy, 2008       

Snow, Cesana-Sansicario, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Cortina, d'Ampezzo, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Courmayeur, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Dobbiaco, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Dolonne, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Folgarida, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Gallio, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, 2008

Snow, Marilleva, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Pre-Saint Didier, Italy, 2008 

Snow, San Candidio, Italy, 2008

Snow, Sauze d'Oulx, Italy, 2008 

Snow, Sestriere, Italy, 2008

Snow, Campo Imperatore, Italy, 2008

Snow, Bad Bleiberg, Austria, 2008

Snow, Innsbruck, Austria, 2008 

Snow, Sillian, Austria, 2008 

Snow, Villah, Austria, 2008    

Snow, Chambery, France, 2008 

Snow, Modane, France, 2008

Snow, Montgenevre, France, 2008

Snow, Kranjska Gora, Slovenia 2008

Snow, Podkoren, Slovenia, 2008

Snow, Bitola, Macedonia, 2004

Snow, Crans-Montana, Switzerland, 2006