Graphics

Rakursi Art Gallery has the pleasure of presenting an exhibition by Veliko Marinchevski.

The exhibition once again reflects the artist’s creative work in China and is a natural continuation of his previous presentations at Rakursi Gallery. The works were created over the past two years in the studios of the Guanlan Printmaking Base, an international printmaking center.

The graphic works take the form of diptychs and triptychs with clearly defined symbolic imagery. The visual language is contemplative and succinct, marked by subtle tonal nuances that create a rich atmosphere of silence, light, and depth. The prints unfold a contemporary expression resonating with Eastern aesthetics and Zen philosophy – a complete presence in the moment, where form becomes meditation.

The triptych as a format has a long tradition, and its use suggests an expanded time–space narrative. Full Moon, Bamboo Stems, Moonbeam, Bird, Stone with Reflection… The full moon is an archetype – fullness, wholeness, light, enlightenment, contemplation. The dark ring of the night sky accentuates its radiance. Each work can be read as a journey of consciousness, from cosmic contemplation to earthly presence: the Moon – source of light, perfect form, the spiritual; the Bamboo, Lotus, and Bird – life in the flow of time, encounters with beauty, insight, and the fleeting moment; the Stone – grounding, completeness, eternity, contemplation without seeking.

Each printmaking technique is consciously employed according to the philosophy of the depicted object, constructing a unified space of image and state. The density of forms, expressed through the complexity of etching and aquatint, is balanced by the emptiness of the evenly printed background – a field created with the lightness of screen printing. Bright, warm, ochre-gray — it functions simultaneously as background and as an active field of existence that elevates the forms. (Emptiness is not absence, but fullness).

The limited palette (black, gray, light ochre) embodies a minimalism that does not narrow but condenses meaning, giving density, texture, and depth through tonal nuance and spatial clarity. In the depicted imagery, the minimalism of form becomes an expression of the maximalism of meaning.