Nikola Nikoloski, senior curator, Museum Ohrid, 1996

On the occasion of the third exhibition of the Ohrid painter Jordan Manasievski.

The huge path in the research of the noble skill – the painting of the landscape, has successfully passed and now it can be freely said that it is fairly occupying the part in the history of the art that belongs to it.

Guided by the sensation in the light and its innate sensibility, it creates images with familiar motifs, but in a different way, so that the landscapes are not a copy, nor do they have such an aim, but an independent organism with the same value as the motive itself. So with a wide palette, slowly but surely the accent from the art form is transferred to the inner, psychological content of the images.

With what the painter sees and takes visual data, he does not end it, but begins the great discovery. Outside the landscape and external reality, only synthesized signs remain leading to the deeper and more pervasive layer, to the mystical construction that is determined by every natural structure.

 

The image, as an area to be organized, is no longer a narrative décor, but a source of compressed energy. The quantity, strong and sound, becomes itself in itself and shape and content.

Deeply connected with nature, with all her wonders and sorcery, Jordan Manasievski does not lead us into a special world of long forgotten feelings, we feel the feelings of colors and rhythms about our only occasions and we forgot them.