DARKO ZAREVSKI
Macedonia
“Digging out the fragments from the past, mixing them together into a grey collage, a second-hand story. Another stillborn product of the beauty and the beast. Paintings under pressure, paraphrases with the inner one. Cutting the layers, cleaning the metastatic cancer cells. Another puzzle piece. My artwork takes a critical view of social, political and cultural issues, often referencing art history, popular culture and subculture. My work explores the varying relationships between popular culture, psychology, and fine art. Recalibrating human morality and the relativity of the same one.”
ARTWORKS
"Child With Bloody Sandwich" N°0080
Description of meat/food industry, the blood of every animal killed in the meat industry and child curiousity
2014
60 x 28 cm
Spray and acrylic on plexiglass
"Molotovmaid - Second Coming" N°0078
Transformation of Vermeer's Milkmaid to Molotovmaid
2014
150 x 120 cm
Spray paint on plexiglass
"Flammable materials" N°0082
Repetition of two riot cops, they are made by the same stencil, like a mirror. That shows their robotic attitude and state of mind. So these two are like machines without feelings, who listen to orders.
2014
59 x70cm
Spray paint on wooden plate
"Atomic Garden" N°1032
A relatively young just married couple walking through apaocaliptic landscape. The bride is pushing the groom forward in a supermarket cart. In the background we see an atomic bomb. This couple is walking and kissing ( maybe their last one ) without any worries. They fall in love and decide to get married to create something more. But instead of the garden of Eden, they are in an apocalyptic garden, atomic reality that man created for himself. Keep going in everyday hell without regrets. Specifically the descriptions for situation in the country that we live in. An eternal transition, highly polluted air ( first in Europe ) broken economy, corrupted politics and an unsafe future.
2017
60 cm x 80 cm
Spray paint on plexiglass
"Take As Needed For Pain III " N°1061
Vermer's girl with the pearl earring adaption with a headache pill.
Girl without a pearl earring, wearing a pill, just human late consumer-capitalism. No colour, no empathy, just nothingness.
2017
50 cm x 60 cm
Spray paint on plexiglass
"Cutting the red tape over and over again" N°0079
Political activities, objects without faces because usually the faces of criminals are hidden. Cutting the tape means separation through neo-totalitarian, political brainwash propaganda (situation in my country).
Divide and conquer thing... The way that politicians works. The painting is worked by photography taken from the local newspaper in my country.
2019
1.25m x 69cm
Spray paint on wooden plate
"In darkness you feel no regret" N°0083
Living in post-nuclear apocalyptic world. Playing with forbidden things and refusing the morality... The code. Days of desolation where survivors keep breathing.
2014
122 x 224 cm
Spray paint on wooden plate
"Take as needed for pain" N°1030
Michelangelo's David holds an infusion, Naked male Renaissance sculpture with modern medicine tool.
Composition with 2 fields, 2 sides, 2 periods of history.
Religion and science, old and new, classic and modern. An pathetic intervention, nihilistic and more casual and realistic view of wasted beauty, ruined ego, futile talent of biblical hero who is getting sick and fragile just like regular human being who has his ownanixiety and middle-age crises. Maybe he's was standing naked for too long.
2017
230 cm x 90 cm
Spray paint on plexi plate
"Neighbourhood" N°1447
Darko Zarevski, Probistip | Macedonia
"Neighbourhood"
2019
40 x 62
Spray on plexiglass
"Take As Needed For Pain III (multi / modifications)" N°1033
Ruininng the myth of a "masterpiece", multiplicate and modulate the same stencil but different spray raster pressure, getting some difference between portraits. Girl with a golden "Montana"cup in different skin types.
Darko Zarevski, Probistip | Macedonia
"TripTyChrist (Segment)"
2017
40 x 100 cm
Spray on plexiglass
"TripTyChrist (Segment)" N°1031
Multiplication on same layer with different sizes of Jesus Christ painted on bubble wrap foil, representing the relief of conventional painting and Jesus suffering crucifxion presentation.
Darko Zarevski, Probistip | Macedonia
"TripTyChrist (Segment)"
2017
Spray paint on wood
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