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Marjana in "Kaleidoscope" - A Film by Sandra Ristovska
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In art, we are always in the field of the "created" and never in the field of the "rendered". What is rendered in a painting, sculpture, or novel - his¬torical and sociological conditions, psychological and physiological processes of the artist, material physics or chemistry - those are realities. Creation refers to the transfer of the aggregate of the realities into a co-reality of a work of art.
Max Bense
The latest cycle of works of Marijana Kostojchinoska represents a symbiosis of the past experiences of the author and a search for auto-referen-tially, experimentation, evaluation. Albeit seemingly, these works resemble something outside of the recourse of the author's past reflections, on the con¬trary, they are one consecutive outcome with a personal impostation.
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‘Knowing a culture, even our own, is a never-ending story.’ (John Van Maanen)
‘I am not the pronoun, but the ironic presence of a native noun.’ (Gerald Vizenor)
The travesty of a post-industrialist existence beckons the individual to seek the plurality of self in long discontinued social forms, whether they be auto-reflexive or ethno-inclusive. Oftentimes, such a journey within/without the hyphenated self propels another quest: a coming to terms with one’s heritage and all the liminality it might entail.
 In her definitive attempt to encircle one such journey, contemporary (hyphenated) artist Marjana Kostojčnoska-Uzunčeva opens the post-industrialist paradigm of a plural self (and its trickster positionality) to the whereabouts of a cultural past, an immanent link to a parlimpsestic presence. Trained in the aesthetics of an ostensibly male-dominated discipline, that of graphic art, Kostojčinoska re-inverts its format so that it may include the otherwise misplaced, marginalized, almost irrevocably silenced artistic spaces, found in the folklore of her peoples. The result: a mediation upon the traditional remnants of cultural contact, between a peoples’ artistic past and its present evocation.
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 The professional and private aspects of an artist's life are constantly interwoven; at times finding themselves in a head-on collision while at other moments they complement each other perfectly. It is as if studio work makes this distinction simul¬taneously a provocation for a plausible deletion of the dichoto¬my intimate - private, resulting in a free movement of the subject and the sign from one realm to another.
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According to Rudolph Arnheim, the circle is the very first organized shape emerging from children's fortuitous and uncontrolled scribble. In the latest series of drawings of the young author - Marjana Kostojcinoska - the circle represents a basic visual structure which is also delineating the topical closure of this exhibition: the schoolyard and all the children's activities pertaining to that irregular circle.
Controversies about the motives of obsession with this simplest of all shapes, which is frequently encountered, among the children, are ranging from the Freudian explanation of imitative rendering of circular objects from the environment, to the usage of circle mainly due to its simplicity! and central symmetry that are making the copying easier for child's unskillful hand.
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To be with children all day long is its own reward, and to usher them into maturity, to see them create and understand the intricate nature of art is a blessing. It can be challenging to work with kids of different ages, tossing and turning throughout the course of the day, but then again it is the best part of any given day. There is always something new to do, to discover, to create, about oneself and one’s place in a teaching environment. The little ones come up with their slew of questions; the high-schoolers offer their opinions. There is never a dull moment; which encourages me to think of new projects, that will capture the potential and the imaginations of different kinds of students, different kinds of learners. At the end of each day, I come back to one key component: what matters is to inspire and teach all of them about their own creativity, since all are creative in their own distinct ways. And if I can, with a degree of success, implant this with my students, my learners, then indeed it has been a day well spent.
Marjana Kostojcinoska Uzunceva MFA
Art teacher
NOVA International Schools
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