Zharko Basheski’s Out of…

Out of... Things we are getting into, are exactly what gets us out of...life. Today's way of communication and receiving information is getting us trapped in an endless loop of virtual connections and disconnecting us from the real world, the physical world, the one that...
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Self Portrait

The self-portrait or the artist’s self-representation has its official roots as far back as the Middle Ages and history of art has noted its presence even centuries before. Zharko Basheski, like many artists before, has made several self-portraits that incorporate the obsessive appearance with one’s...
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Crucifixion

The sculpture Crucifixion is perhaps only the end of a story of this chapter in the art legacy of Basheski. This scene depicts a man in a pose of crucifixion, but upside down, as the scene of the crucifixion of St. Peter. Following the life...
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ASPHYXIA or TO THE LAST BREATH

Žarko Bašeski’s latest work Asphyxia (sculpture; silicon, nylon, natural hair; 200 x 180 x 160 cm), is a powerful symbol of man’s existential condition in the modern world. This work can be understood as a desperate cry of the mankind, dying in a suicidal agony....
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Ordinary Human Exhibition – National Gallery Cifte Amam

In the early 90s of the last century, Zarko Baseski seriously imposed himself through his exhibitions in Macedonia and in the years that followed in Europe through his new explorative consideration in the field of plastic sculptural expression. His initial works in context of free...
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Bunsen Goetz Galerie, Nürnberg

Always happy, active and good-looking, as if coming from a cosmetics catalogue – this is how movies and television, yellow pages and advertisements, picture us humans. With his hyper-realistic plastic artworks, the Macedonian sculptor Žarko Bašeski allows us to see that this ideal presentation of...
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LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA – LEAP

At the beginning of this century, when rushing towards the New and Unknown, we finally reached the line where our world ends; when the end of History was announced and the colossal ruins of Religion, Philosophy and Art were left behind, when the time of...
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