Žarko Bašeski , through his work, rather than shunning the aspects of human existence and social life, vehemently analyzes and directly presents his personal outlooks and conclusions.While searching for gnoseological and ontological answers about the man, the artist, with his work, not haphazardly called Venus, goddess of love and beauty, leads us into the autistic void of today’s social life, allowing us a possibility for self-exploration, self-discovery, and self-growth by changing the vision of and the truth about ourselves and the human existence.

The interpretation of the sculpture or installation Venus requires multilayered analysis. The visual element is primary – it is a hyper realistic, oversize rendering of a dwarf woman. Taking special care of the photographically hyper realistic details, with emphasized interest for the emotions, it portrays a person from the societal fringes by presenting a whole life story through its body, facial expression, silence and immobility. The metaphysical exchange of looks and perceptions of the human being with Laron syndrome and us opens a possibility to change positions through the sculptural oversized reality.

This way we come to the secondary element in our understanding and interpretation of Bašeski’s work – how we see the world through this group of people and how they see us, which is essentially introspection.

The third layer of Venus is the materialization of the psychological reality through the psychic presence of the sculpture as a kind of a plastic social criticism of the actual reality.

The interpretation of Bašeski’s work sets a new direction in the order of perception of the primary, secondary and tertiary elements, where all the elements become primary in the “inversion’ of the role of man in the society.

Bašeski as an author is open to experiments in the quest for new plastic expression and personal signature. By provoking both himself and the others with his experimental ruffles, he insists upon telling a life story in sequences thus achieving a new, complete unity. Under such circumstances, his works call for understanding rather than just viewing.

Ultimately, Bašeski’s work aims at free expression of the author’s reflective interpretation of the world we live in while its visual shaping as an act of self-discovery.

Gorančo Gjorgjievski