1933, Prilep, Macedonia – 1989, Skopje, Macedonia
Painting 81/68, 1968
Mixed media on canvas, 160 x 130 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 01711
Biography
Risto Kalchevski (April 29, 1933 in Prilep – August 7, 1989 in Skopje) – Macedonian painter and professor at the Faculty of Fine Arts in Skopje, the most characteristic representative of abstract painting.
Career
He graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Ljubljana in 1953. He was a member of the Mugri group. He exhibited independently in Skopje, Ljubljana, Paris and Kranj.
Style
Associative elements appear even in his earliest paintings (“Figures in Green”, 1959), which later transition into completely non-figurative representations (“Steam”, 1961).
Towards the end of the sixties, he introduced non-painterly materials into his work with unobtrusive geometricism, freeing the path of the painting towards the object. The latest works, inspired like the previous ones by the Macedonian cultural and geographical climate, contain a more cheerful color and a more emphasized liveliness.
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The link to the article from Wikipedia in Macedonian language: https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ристо_Калчевски
