1987, Fier, Albania
Small House, Home Sweet Home, 2014
350 plaster and acrylic colored houses, each 5 x 5 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 5277
1987, Uroshevac, Kosovo
Barking on the Clouds Doesn’t Hurt the Dogs, 2022
Welded iron letters and broken glass, 60 x 840 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 5308
Tomo Shijak
1930, Kosovo Polje, Yugoslavia – 1998, Skopje, Macedonia
In Honor of Chairs, 1965
Mixed media on wood, 122 x 71 x 2 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 01113
Tome Adzievski
1958, Strumica, Macedonia
From the cycle Places, 1993
Wood, synthetic resin, set of 4 sculptures: 174 х 22 х 20; 148 х 20 х 20; 154 х 22 х 21;158 х 21 х 18 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03830
1939, Zhelin, Greece – 2023, Skopje, North Macedonia
Painted Sunset, 1984
Oil on canvas, 105 x 146 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03577
1959, Erekovci
The Work Above the Book-The Book Above the Work, 2004
Plywood box, glass, six books, 70 x 200 x 70 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 04208
1962 Skopje, Macedonia
Closed Echo, 1996
Installation with 12 objects, variable dimensions; polyester, photography, metal holders, steel stripes, sand, pigment
Acquisition: Gift from the artist
Reference: 04055
1960, Dubnica, Serbia
Labyrinth III, 1997
Floor object with newspapers, 175 x 248 x 5 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03975
1956, Kavadarci, Macedonia
Kite of All Kites, 1986/2019
Straw, wooden construction, 400 x 300 x 120 cm
Acquisition: Purchased
Reference: 03653
Biography
In 1981 Stefanov graduated from the Academy of Arts in Belgrade, where he also studied as a post-graduate (1983-5). From the outset of his career, Stefanov treated sculpture as an object or an installation of objects. In the mid-1980s he set up several installations and assemblages made of cotton, straw, grass, clay and wood in public sites in Kavadarci and galleries in Skopje, Belgrade, and Zagreb. In 1986 he held a solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, an installation with “Kites”, made of straw. In 1988 he settled in London, where the narrative aspects of his work shifted from mythology to religion. In the early 1990s, he produced a series of objects and installations entitled Seraphim, Cherubim, and Thrones in the form of angels’ wings and discs, executed in straw and boards or tree trunks and branches set up in the Whitechapel Art Gallery (Broadgate Sculpture Project, 1989), London, the Grizedale Forest (1990) in Cumbria and in Cirencester (1991). In 1993, together with the sculptor Petre Nikoloski (b 1959), he exhibited in the Macedonian section of the 45th Venice Biennale. In 2019 a retrospective exhibition Gligor Stefanov: Grabbing the Space took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art Skopje. (z.p.)
1932, Krk, Croatia – 1992, Belgrade, Serbia
Experiment with Newspapers, 1975
Newspaper, wood, steel poles, 112 х 83,5 х 64,5 cm
Acquisition: Gift by the artist
Reference: 03134
