ON THE ARCHETYPE IN THE GRAPHIC WORKS OF ALEKSANDAR JOVANOVSKI MIJAK
Graphic art, as any other art, represents experiencing the internal Creative force, which sets the Creator free from the external world. It follows the ontological model according to which the work, with all its spiritual wealth, is created.
The Archetype, according to Jung, is a primordial image and idea, inherent and common to all people, which fulfils the “Collective Unconscious”. This definition of the archetype, by Jung, is constant within each Creation which goes in pursuit of its meaning and values.
The graphic works by Aleksandar Jovanovski Mijak are an excited gaze into the Archetype. His works, through all elements of their creation, which is to say, through the drawing, the light and dark, the surface, colour and composition, reveal his Creative graphic interpretation of the “Collective Unconscious”.
This graphic art also carries within itself exciting poetics, through which the Author experiences and discovers the World and Man in it. The old gate, “Ornamented” with graphic markings of letters and purified structure, creates the impression of sacral music.
The Old Mortar and the Old Pitcher, on the table- space, seen through the graphic flair of Aleksandar Mijak, supported by the Dance of the White Archaic markings, are perceived as Bhatia connecting time in one single eternity.
Aleksandar Jovanovski Mijak creates graphic art with a clear and personal Creative signature, strongly marked by the world within him.
In this World, the surface, colour, shape and drawing, have been brought in a strong emotional communication with Nature. Thus, it is, quite certainly, the most significant feature of this Creation.
Nature, here, is not invented, but graphically created anew. Thus, forceful graphic works reveal themselves in front of us – pictures with artistic values at the very pick of Macedonian contemporary graphic art.
Aleksandar Jovanovski Mijak possesses a clear and precise Creative concept, through which he creates Beauty as a primordial creature that endows Empirical things with their visage, real value and sense.
Before us stands the graphic art of a Creator preaching his truth. In these graphic works, the Creator understands the Archetype as a primordial image belonging to all men and filling the “Collective Unconscious” with his own Creative ecstasy.
Vladimir Georgievski, PhD
Academic painter
...A SPIRITUAL ARCHETYPICAL METAPHOR...
The temporal circumstances in which the graphic artist and painter, Aleksandar Jovanvski, creates are seemingly unfavourable, bearing in mind the inevitable trends of complex and not always convincing options. However, this very disadvantage is only the first temptation which can stimulate and guide a young artist towards seriousness and temporality. His concept represent a unison of interests dedicated to the essential values of: the sign, the symbol, the graphic features of the letter, motives of objects and the aesthetics of space centres on which they are positioned.
The shape with an iconical metaphor is most frequently monolithic and touches upon the spiritual world of the archetypical symbolism. As an academic graphic artist, Aleksandar utilizes graphic lettering, thus picturing a graphic syntax with an already formulated artistic attitude.
As a result of the author’s persistent dedication in the period of the undergraduate and postgraduate studies, his works have accumulated a forceful artistic signature with a modern sensibility, which frames the final representation of the artistic expression.
In the exhibited graphic works from his postgraduate studies and in the remaining segments of his creative opus, a basic metaphorical and clear visual model is recognised. The graphic forms of the coloured surfaces and the transposed segments of still life are composed of the basic artistic elements: point, line, texture – in some instances with an expanding role and gesturing handwriting. The use of letters.... syllables does not encompass any sense of a linguistic, semantic writing or massaging. The author reduces the idea to a palpable sign as a mark of pure visual sensibility, with is much more action oriented, than contemplative.
The primal dimension of thought with which Aleksandar enlivens the motive for creation is the simple thought that serves him to explore, in full swing, the existing links between nature and human perceptions, his sensibility and his experiences with what is existent.
Personally, I could only summarise my impressions from this exhibition, having extensively followed his activities during multiple years, and knowing Aleksandar both as a person and as an author. I also know that due to his endeavours related to the graphic art and painting and his sense for refined craftsmanship skills, diligently studied from a very early age, the art of
Aleksandar Jovanovski - Mijak confirms the author’s defined artistic expression.
Mirko Vujisik, PhD
Academic graphic artist