New Kiro Urdin's Book (Beta Version)

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P R E F A C E ART - COSMOS AND LIGHT OF THE SPIRIT “So God created man in his own image” Genesis 1:27

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e can define Art as Cosmos and Light of the Spirit. It is a Cosmos opened to infinity, expanding in concentric circles, and constantly enriched with new galaxies. Except God, nothing speaks so powerfully about man like Art, which produces the most precious product of all the products that he could have created and imagined: Beauty. Poetry, painting, sculpture, music, dance... They are all divine acts of the Spirit which are transcendent by definition, and they elevate man from the earthly towards the heavenly, towards the primal authentic source of his origin and existence.

And truly, Art is the most prominent sign that man did not reach its holy fire through blind evolution, but that it is ignited in every atom of his Spirit by the Creator Himself, even during his conception at the beginning of Creation. Since then, that eternal fire, like a genetic code, is left as a legacy and the most worthy property we inherited from our Father in heavens. It is the most powerful evidence that He created us in his own image and likeness, not only physically, but also spiritually.

Art, being a gift, contains many other gifts and powers within itself. Among other things, it also

possesses healing powers for the man thrown into fate and suffering, thrown into the dark night of history, in life under the burden of evil, in which he builds a home on the foundations of pain.

But even in such a life, man passes through the dangerous labyrinth of existence with the light of Art, which possesses the power of faith - the same Jesus talks about in the New Testament.

And with it, same as with faith, he can move mountains. In that sense, we can understand William Blake who says that we don’t need only faith for our salvation, but also Art. It is needed because it radiates the beauty and the good, the light in which man and mankind come to know their divine origin. As such, Art is absolutely transcendent and carries within itself the utopia of spiritual happiness, cleansed of any crude existential mud, social restraints or historic catastrophes. Art promises this utopia, which was ingeniously, as a prophetic vision, sensed

by Dostoevsky: “Art will save the world”. It will perhaps happen when all human souls, like the beasts and the stones lured by Orpheus’ music, will come and drink from its spring. God, may that day come sooner!

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inally, recently his insatiable curiosity and his exploring appetite have taken him to fi ve continents, so as to paint, in each country visited, the same immense canvas: 48 sq. m., eight meters by six, split into two parts of 24 m2. Unrolled at each stop, sometimes placed on a stretcher, Kiro, overwhelmed by the prestigious nature ofhis environment, the millennial cultures and the unequalled riches of world heritage, has covered it as a symbol of his taking possession. Drunk with the centuries-old fragrances, the companionship of people from every race, face to face to temples, and with landscapes from the four corners of the earth, he translated his circumstantial emotions. For two and a half year, dealing with problems, which would have been insurmountable for most of us, he fi lled his fresco with the spoils of his remembered images in situ, and with the breath of his sensitive thoughts. From Skopje, cradle of all births, to the cannibals of Mindoro, from Kheops to the Pre-Columbian sites of Machu Pichu, from the Masais in Kenya to the Forbidden City of Peking, from Jerusalem, where, on hearing of the birth of his daughter Donna, he kissed the tomb of Christ and immolated, through fi re, a large piece of the canvas, in New York, Tokyo and in the great European capitals, he placed his long, mystical, journeying under the banner of love and of the search of his limits.

Th is exhausting journey, with thousands of episodes and repeated perils, on the scale of his lack of measure, was undertaken by Kiro, obstinately, almost devotedly, his canvas on his back, in all weathers, and employing frequently unusual means of transport, aiming only for infi

nity in his quest and for the blossoming of his serenity. He has brought back a synthesis haloed by memory and aff ect, woven from unattained dreams, and fulfi lled hopes, whose recipient, in other words the canvas, was endlessly reworked as a dream of knowledge and of freedom fi nally materialized.

A hymn to happiness, an act of love, this work entitled Planetarium, “one point everywhere, everything in one point”, and condensed in a remarkable short movie, nowadays belongs to the company Neways Electronics International, in Holland, and decorates its entrance lobby with its blue background, an allusion to the cosmos, on which play the trances of his forms and of his signs like a promise of universal joy. It was a unique experience “ a turning point in my life”, an adventure out of the norm”, says Kiro.

At this stage, no matter how far back the analysis proceeds; Kiro Urdin’s work is an affi rmation of an authority without a decisive break.

Of fl esh and blood, it describes the man in fi ligree; solitude, melancholy, nostalgia, incommunicability, but whom only aspires to light and to peaceful world. And if it lingers in the unconscious of people and things, it has to do with contradictory fl uxes in his sumptuous vital energy, at the service of a superior realty. After many turbulences, every exhibition adding a new step to his reputation, Kiro Urdin, like James Joyce, remains that tender and wild individualist, whose conquering the artwork, refractory to fashions and to labels, resonates deep inside us, long afterwards.

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ut, in fact what captivates me is the outline underlining his face, tight the features, loose them, go and come, blue, orange, red, in a kind of a linear exuberance. A line emerge, a line surround, a line operates, a line thinks, reconsiders a face.

Th ere is of Klee in the painting of Urdin. It means deepness and all as one of childish joy, of the graffi ti but which are neither of sex nor of death, only expression of happiness.

The abstracted peak, in the years after the war, when already it had become the most needy of academicism, repeats the wording aged of art for art. It is even more near us with the free figuration, which is most often an empty shell. What I like, on the contrary, it is that the artist goes beyond his limits, as does Urdin. His paintings are spirit messengers. Art to be or art for the being.

It is, I believe, what is perceived at the first sight in this artwork and which is in fact, at the same time, the main interest.

Jean-Louis Ferrier Art Critic

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Love and Betrayal (oil on canvas, 200x300 cm.)

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Studio in New York

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Planetarium, Jerusalim

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New Continent (oil on canvas, 200x150 cm)

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Green Lagun (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm)

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Theatre (watercolour, 75x105 cm)

Wide Open (watercolour, 100x70 cm)

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Spirals of love (oil on canvas, 200x130 cm)

Interior of exterior (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm)

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Amazon (oil on canvas, 120x170 cm) 22

Alert (watercolour, 250x350 cm)

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Futuristic City (oil on canvas, 200x300 cm)

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Love, before and after

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Blue, red, black (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm)

Kourtizana (oil on canvas, 200x300 cm)

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Cabaret (oil on canvas, 90x120 cm)

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Connection (watercolour, 100x70 cm)

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Gabon, (oil on canvas, 73x92 cm) Children’ s game (oil on canvas, 160x200 cm)

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Volcano and love (oil on canvas, 100x150 cm)

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Andalusian dog (watercolour, 40x50 cm) 34

Small Titan (watercolour, 35x50 cm)

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Cartier (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Jazz player (watercolour, 40x60 cm) 38

Ragby man (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Green garden (oil on canvas, 200x300 cm) 40

Red and black (oil on canvas, 160x195 cm) 41

Crystal world (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 42

Amazon Queen (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Classical music (watercolour, 120x150 cm)

Model of Modilliani (oil on canvas, 72x92 cm)

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Moment of Craziness (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Look (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm)

Seductior (watercolour, 55x75 cm) Reality and imagination (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm)

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Blue dream (watercolour 55x75 cm)

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Dogon woman (watercolour, 75x120 cm)

Dramatic love (watercolour, 120x170 cm) 52

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Woman and peace (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 54

Surprise feeling (watercolour, 70x110 cm)

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Scala de Milano (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

Pharaon’s cousine (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

Music and the things (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 56

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Smaragd (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

Profounder (watercolour, 120x170 cm)

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In the bed (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

Noble woman (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Black roses (oil on canvas, 200x160 cm)

Flying animal (huile sur toile, 100x80 cm)

Festival de Cannes (huile sur toile, 120x150 cm)

Space and lines (oil on canvas, 180x120 cm) 62

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Steps of time (oil on canvas, 200x400 cm) 64

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Gentle gift (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 66

Mystic Bird (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Free abstraction (oil on canvas, 300x200 cm)

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Bothanic garden (oil on canvas, 120x80 cm)

Blue expression (oil on canvas, 200x200 cm)

Supernatural (oil on canvas, 130x150 cm) 69

Oceanica (oil on canvas, 400x290 cm) 70

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Walking (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

Dogon man (watercolour, 35x50 cm)

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Together forever (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

Zoutland (oil on canvas, 80x80 cm)

Africano (watercolour, 50x50 cm)

Brooklyn woman (oil on canvas, 82x100 cm)

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Black eye (oil on canvas, 100x120 cm) 76

Fire of love (oil on canvas, 80x130 cm)

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Blue transpancy (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm) 78

Love at first sight (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm) 79

Dialogue (watercolour, 80x100 cm) 80

The ritual (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Night Club (watercolour, 30x40 cm) 82

Full moon (oil on canvas, 72x92 cm)

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In the city (oil on canvas, 200x140 cm)

Babilon tower (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm) 84

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Caleidoscop (oil on canvas, 65x85 cm)

Logic (oil on canvas, 72x90 cm)

Romantic garden (oil on canvas, 70x92 cm)

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Spring signal (oil on canvas, 160x135 cm)

Cosmic syntesis (oil on canvas, 140x120 cm)

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Yellow secret (oil on canvas, 300x200 cm)

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Exotic garden (oil on canvas, 130x150 cm)

Liquid (oil on canvas, 110x150 cm) 91

Link (oil on canvas, 200x155 cm) 92

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Returning into past (oil on canvas, 170x130 cm)

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L’amour cache (oil on cavas, 145x113 cm)

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Women of Venecia (oil on canvas 100x82 cm)

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Synthesis (oil on canvas 40x55 cm)

Black kingdom (watercolour 25x35 cm)

Nucleus (watercolour 25x35 cm) 99

Wires (watercolour, 25x35 cm)

Part of grass (oil on canvas 30x70 cm)

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Blue Abstraction (oil on canvas, 81x100 cm)

Closed circle (oil on canvas 80x100 cm) 101

Modern Dance (watercolour, 120x170 cm)

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Circle world (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

First and second (oil on canvas, 70x90 cm)

Rythme and Rythme (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 103

Childish dream (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 104

My world (oil on canvas, 120x100 cm)

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Discovery (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm)

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Dogona (oil on canvas, 400x300 cm) 108

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Blue parts (oil on canvas, 70x90 cm)

Galapagos turtle (oil on canvas, 110x130 cm) 110

Classic dance (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm)

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Osmose (huile sur toile, 120 x 160 cm)

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Adam and Eve (oil on canvas, 180x120 cm)

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Together (oil on canvas, 140x160 cm) 114

Softness (oil on canvas, 130x150 cm)

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Mysteries of Luxor (oil on canvas, 130x170 cm)

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Past (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Love roses (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Dots and lines (watercolour, 35x45 cm) 118

Stoned egg (oil on canvas, 150x120 cm)

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Another galaxy (oil on canvas, 160x130 cm) 120

Cristal de Bolivia, huile sur toile, 110 x 160 cm, 2008

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Orion, detail (oil on canvas, 150x140 cm) 122

Orion, (oil on canvas, 150x140 cm)

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Experimental music (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm) 124

Lost world (oil on canvas, 200x200 cm) 125

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Balance (oil on canvas, 70x90 cm)

Two pheonixes (oil on canvas, 110x140 cm)

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Fons vitae (oil on canvas, 300x200 cm)

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Crystal man (oil on canvas, 160x130 cm) 130

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Women of the Green Rivier (oil on canvas, 109x105 cm)

Love Heart (wathercolour, 55x75 cm) 133

Green abstraction (oil on canvas, 81x100 cm)

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Blue Red Black, huile sur toile, (130 x 145 cm)

Signal of love (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm)

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Dream (oil on canvas, 120x100 cm)

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Rocky beach (huile sur toile, 100x150 cm)

Solitude (oil on canvas, 114x146 cm)

Document (oil on canvas, 100x150 cm)

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Spring day (oil on canvas, 80x60 cm) 140

Europa (oil on canvas, 600x200 cm, 1998)

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Equator woman (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm)

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Rouge de Galicia (huile sur toile, 120 x 160 cm) 144

Souvenirs d’Afrique (huile sur toile, 140 x 120 cm) 145

In the heart of the volcano (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm) 146

Green cubes (oil on canvas, 80x100 cm) 147

In Brasil (oil on canvas, 55x75 cm) 148

Cuzco (huile sur toile, 120 x 150 cm) 149

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Lucky meeting (oil on canvas, 110x140 cm)

Two Dogons (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Pacific (oil on canvas, 80x80 cm) 152

Forms of love (oil on canvas, 80x80 cm) 153

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Coral life (watercolour, 75x105 cm) 155

Vivid (watercolour, 55x75 cm) Spirit (watercolour, 30x45 cm)

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Granada (watercolour, 30x45 cm) 157

Đ•xtravagance (watercolour, 55x75 cm) 158

Between two (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Structure (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Illusion (watercolour, 75x105 cm)

Butterfly (watercolour, 55x75 cm)

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Volcano (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Avatar (watercolour, 30x45 cm)

Alien (watercolour, 30x45 cm) 163

Galaxy (oil on canvas, 100x75 cm)

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Space unity (oil on canvas, 300x200 cm)

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Humanoid (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm) 168

Atlas (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm)

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Neron’s son (watercolour, 25x35 cm)

Border (watercolour, 60x75 cm) 170

Zen (watercolour, 75x60 cm)

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Guest (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Lady (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Sexy Fruits (watercolour, 50x65 cm)

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Experience (watercolour, 40x50 cm)

Step (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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In another world (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Connected (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Deep in the ocean (watercolour, 35x45 cm) 174

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Hug (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

In the bed (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Red world (watercolour, 35x45 cm) 176

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Luci (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Act (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Congo (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Unknown creature (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Blue creatures (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Electronic game (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Contradiction (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Myth (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Harmony (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Coral world (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Erotic feelings (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

Magic circle (watercolour, 35x45 cm)

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Rino (oil on canvas, 130x180 cm) 186

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Two Times (oil on canvas, 120x150 cm)

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xxx (oil on canvas, 82x100 cm) 190

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Intelligence (watercolour, 130x170 cm)

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AFORISMS Kiro Urdin

• Success on success – blindness.

• The circle you belong to is the coop you’ll end up in.

• History repeats itself, its authors the victors.

• Understand the solitude of those who live within you and you’ll be a human being.

• Work like a slave, think like a thinker – even if you’re a slave.

• I can’t be touched – least of all by those who can’t hurt me.

• Nothing at once, everything in the meantime.

• There’s nowhere we can reach as long as we all want to be in the same place.

• Change your tense. Use the future if things don’t go right in the present.

• Feel good in your own skin, under it the years decide.

• You’re the same as your neighbour, but the converse could also be said.

• Don’t be forever shooting at me, some of your bullets are blanks.

• Humanise the success that means everything in life.

• Everyone dreams their own life’s dream, reality is life beyond the grave.

• To read that you know better than I do, I’d have to be literate.

• Tread somewhere else, the truth lies beneath your feet.

• Advert: Wanted – a parasite that gives blood willingly.

• Step by step, foot by foot.

• We’ll be equal before the law when the judges are too.

• Depending on myself, I depend on others.

• Men went to Mars. The Martians said, ‘What robots!’

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• Men live penned in prison, animals at liberty in zoos.

• One page of love, several novels of life.

• We’ll become what we are.

• Destiny decides on friendship, man on enmity.

• You can tell the day by its morning, but the year by its last day.

• The ultimate end of the end is to reach itself.

• As a footballer I was a national hero, but there were eleven of us.

• Africa is black, Europe is white unless it sunbathes.

• I thought I’d stop the clock this year but it’s already 31st December.

• Don’t root for me too loud, they’ll think I paid you more than the others.

• Friends are like teeth, they fall out one by one.

• Be patient, nobody’s waiting for you.

• The world has always been deceitful, but it has more accomplices now.

• I’m looking for a woman I can read at once while she translates me lifelong.

• You want to meet the author? Read his text, he’s in it.

• Man wants to become immortal, surely that means the death of the planet?

• Even under a king’s crown it’s a man who makes the decisions.

• Equality between men and women is merely biological, in life she is everywhere.

• Either you run with the times or they trample on you.

• Power today is won by a majority of votes – and the number of promises that won’t be kept.

• Since we understood each other at once, we have less and less to say to one another.

• Between life’s first minute and its last – time flies.

• If only life were a bible, containing nothing but truth.

• An absolute rule – no one is an exception.

• Times past were better – so were we.

• A recipe for a long life: live less each day.

• Interest is like a pipe of peace; it must be shared for peace to rule.

• You say it’s all one to you; have you thought that ‘all’ is plural?

• The fool who keeps company with the wise is not such a fool after all – nor is the wise man who keeps company with fools very wise.

• Take your time over the first step, the second follows by inertia.

• The earth’s in a tight place – everything’s on the increase.

• Now is better than next time.

• A stranger at home, a stranger abroad – a citizen of the world.

• Wine can’t breathe because of the cork, but without it, it goes sour.

• First kitsch, then avantgarde.

• It’s no laughing matter being the tree of life in a forest fire.

• Write a word every day, in the end you’ll have a novel.

• Carnivores are bad because they eat meat, herbivores good because they graze on flowers.

• If you don’t go on you’ll get to where you left off.

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• What kind of laughter is a sneer?

• The gift of genius is public comedy, it raises a laugh.

• I’m looking for a way to tell you everything to your face – have you time to listen to any of that?

• Women and luck are alike, both changeable by nature.

• Until you begin to apologise, you’ve done nothing wrong.

• Let’s chain Prometheus, the forest has begun to blaze around him.

• The universe is endless, time without a beginning.

• All present applauded the speaker, even the author of his speech.

• Stay in one place – you have to die somewhere.

• The meeting of evil spirits is postponed – they can’t bear standing on a sound platform.

• I’ll spend my time with you if you’ll leave me alone.

• Art has become universal – what someone can do, anybody can.

• Shorten the next journey to the next step.

• Look at success after an interval of time – isn’t there something grotesque in it?

• I write freely, expecting the verdict to be liberating.

• If you don’t live among friends, you too will become an enemy.

• Politicians today have nothing to be pardoned for; they’re not guilty of anything.

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• The equator is at your feet, with your next step you’ll be North or South.

• Think differently about the same thing.

• You’re living dangerously – one day you’ll hit the headlines.

• My friends know me better because they look me in the eye more often.

• What sort of friendship should we opt for: a day’s, a year’s or a lifetime’s?

• A foolish thought in a play on words isn’t so any more.

• Tomorrow is the day of our first encounter, today of our last farewell.

• A little every day and already a lot more.

• I follow in your footsteps but your feet leave no prints.

• People are blind in two situations – when they love and when they hate.

• The world has changed, everyone has begun to look like everyone else.

• Because we all give, everyone gets something.

• From where on the globe should I set out to reach my goal?

• Leap over what doesn’t deserve to be walked over.

• Better to conquer yourself than have others defeat you.

• The Achilles’ heel of the footstep is its print.

• Since we understood each other at once we have neither a past nor a future.

• Be extreme, the average is middling.

• A new sort of racism – party colours.

• Seeing birds fly freely, the emigrant would like to be a migrant.

• Who loves, overdoes things; who overdoes things is not loved.

• No one is last as long as love at first sight exists.

• As long as you’re pacific, you’re the greatest ocean.

• Of nine chances, we’re the tenth.

• Ruler, is the middle class content? The upper class will never be.

• Man’s ecological error – overpopulation.

• Three kinds of slave: the slave to power, the wage slave and the credit slave.

• Distance yourself from yourself, you’re close to evil.

• Sure of yourself, sovereign everywhere.

• Punishment is most often revenge, but when punishment errs it dreams of pardon.

• I’ve a feeling I’ve seen you somewhere!

Yes, don’t you have a feeling you need me for something?

• I stand the way my affairs stand.

• Everything depends on the election, who will pay for it?

• The younger generation likes autumn, it sees the older as a deciduous forest.

• Don’t miss the moment if your future’s in it.

• I stand the way my affairs stand.

• Of all consequences, the first is the longest.

• The world’s become tragicomic, nobody laughs outright without a tragedy.

• The actress understood too late, to be a fashionable success she should be naked.

• You’re my first love; at the start I was the last to be first.

• Spring’s arrived, the flowers are in bloom, but no one’s taken a sniff at me.

• After the first comes the average.

• Of all womankind, the motherland weeps most honestly.

• As long as there was capitalism and communism there was the cold war; now the world’s in flames.

• Better days are coming, so man will be even worse.

• The nation and nationalities will be richer, everyone working on his own account.

• The tax we pay from birth is life, the interest our years.

• I’ve learned nothing from myself, all my life I’ve learned from life.

• Talk openly but in an open space – words eco.

• The difference between profit and profiteers: profit is divided, profiteers multiply.

• Brief announcement: full stop.

• I say the same thing all the time, in this I differ from others.

• Be in touch with your soul, the body’s fickle.

• Judging from my instinct, they’re right to call me an animal.

• Macedonia is immortal: it’s surrounded by deathless foes.

• I’m always the first to do wrong, that’s why I’m so experienced.

• Either be it, or stop going on about what you want to be.

• Why shouldn’t I gossip about my friends? My enemies know in advance what I’ll say about them.

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• He who is born with everything he needs has no need of himself.

• The bad novel became a drama, all the characters started to ham it up.

• Whoever wants to rule should be a realist, the female sphere is not amenable to that.

• Be civilised, abstain.

• I’ve no need of a visa, my friendship has no frontiers.

• Think freely about freedom of thought.

• The glass in your hand is fragile, the water in it heavy.

• Why so many smiling politicians when they persuade us we’re living in difficult times?

• I was sacked, I’d no electricity, my child had neither bread nor milk. The first snow fell! I went out for a walk boiling inside.

• The wise man counsels the foolish as long as he doesn’t trust him – then he laughs at him.

• As long as your chances are sinking, you swim well.

• Between the frontier and the marriage bed there’s a foreigner.

• According to the statistics, crime has decreased – but just wait till the next election.

• Wise plus wise, wiser; foolish plus foolish, more foolish.

• In childhood death is an illusion, in middle age a reality, and in old age an everyday occurrence.

• The easiest woman is the inquisitive one, she’ll give herself to convince herself.

• In life we either weep or laugh – the rest is the daily round.

• When everything’s in motion, it’s hard to escape being trodden on.

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• Where there’s punishment there’s fear, where there’s fear there’s deceit.

• After the good times comes reality.

• When a rich man swims in a sea of cash, he thinks it’s an ocean.

• The difference between the unfaithful man and the unfaithful woman - she has the greater choice.

• If you’ve decided to go all the way, distance yourself.

• Enough! - so that it doesn’t get boring.

• When it’s certain the force that’s heading for you will win, face another way.

• To live healthily, you should eat well - to live longer, eat less.

• Judge the sublime, the rest is error-free.

• Be in the middle; don’t underestimate the one below you, or overestimate the one above you.

• If somebody serves you as a model, don’t undress in front of them.

• Fill the mouth that constantly criticizes you, and the same mouth will shower you with praise.

• Swim in the sea of love; later you’ll start to drown in it.

• What would Tutankhamen’s attitude to silence be, when nowadays every ‘pharaoh’ has his own spokesman?

• How to prevent the inevitable, when it’s a part of what’s to follow?

• Line up in order, I want to set you right.

• I’m in form, my wallet’s shaking.

• I am the avantgarde, I trample all before me.

• The price goes up when we are paying, and falls when others do so for us.

• Who’s more in the right: he who usurps another’s right, or he who wants to keep the right for himself?

• Don’t limit the movement of those who follow you.

• Write down what you said, but use fewer words.

• Seize the moment when you’re in fashion, for fashion’s moment doesn’t last long.

• Don’t irritate the mouth whose tongue expresses itself crudely.

• Have we ever asked ourselves what happens behind the man who always wants to be in the foreground?

• What do cows think of silicone breasts?

• Finally the tastes of artists and consumers have coincided - paint and consume a Big Mac, Coca Cola or spaghetti.

• I’m in a fix: should I take the queen, or checkmate the king?

• Why shouldn’t I sell myself, if someone’s prepared to pay more than I’m worth?

• There’s a philosopher with universal wisdom - he’s called Old Age. • No one is as young as his years, or as old as the years life has given him.

• What is the evolution of the line of least resistance when the whistle blows for an outsider, and when it blows for the favourite?

• We say that there’s nothing in space that means there’s no space.

• A king’s crowning success is his queen, the queen’s when both crowns are united on her head.

• Today a person no longer knows whether the world has become civilised or militarised.

• The end of all illusions - I’ve hit reality by mistake.

• What should one’s attitude be when someone has done something for someone else and the benefit is mutual?

• What would a novel look like with the first and the last pages blank?

• Is there an ordinal number for the consequences of a wrong decision?

• I’ve reached the peak of the pyramid, what’s the next point?

• When you’re on the list of undesirables, the only consolation is that if they scored you out they might mark your name with a cross.

• It’s a full moon tonight, should I think of sex or my wages?

• Producers of the world, distribute yourselves!

• Decide what your future route will be - the path you follow every day, or the road you should set out on?

• Write down what you said, but use fewer words.

• After Mt. Everest the next peak is Mars.

• Does anyone know where the epicentre of a shaky marriage bed lies?

• Money is a trial - spending deliveres the verdict.

• Everything happens quickly - except in sex.

• A kind od depresion - uncertainty.

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RATS

This is the platform of the great rats, everlasting lords born into death, underneath trains and metallic screech of rails.

This is the platform of sorrow and love, of the great rats of the evil empire, of corridors that travel in trains of fog of the birds that fly one way along the corridors of fog, scattering the spirit of the wind.

Birds, corridors and passages of fog.

The lens of the eye peers anxiously here among the rats, the trains, the rails.

The fog announces to us and to you: No escape. It is lord and master of our entrails.

It is the shadow of our route.

Look, there are the poets who are just crossing the threshold of the entrance.

They want to be first to bid us welcome, last to say farewell.

The rails rattle askew at the tread, the tread of trains arriving and departing within us.

The new arrives, the old departs.

Here is the ball of love rebounding off the walls of life that no one can catch, can touch.

Here everything is secret and concealed, the platform of the great rats - a great secret.

How many platforms and trains to their souls, how many platforms and trains to our death ask the shadows of the guards of death born in them, ask the guards of all the secrets stifled there.

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NUMBER

After my death I’ll tell you how many decades I’m behind in writing telephone numbers in my notebook; it is grubby, long-suffering and old.

I write and write in it, rubbing nothing out.

My telephone notebook is a city of the living and the dead, the dead are born again and the same is true of the living.

It is a city of friends, loved ones and chance encounters.

Meetings there take place at any time of day.

Everyone starts out there with everyone and everyone knows everybody else.

New friendships are old, the old are new.

There everyone writes himself in without rubbing anyone out.

Noted like this the numbers are stamped on the skin of the day and together they write secrets they don’t even know.

Since sincerity settles into them all they merge and crowd together, stretched out they set inner roads in motion.

So number matches number and is fond of it, so number hushes number and comforts it, though when there’s no third number any more there’s no response from the number sought.

So the numbers entered will always be alive in themselves, and the fates of the secrets will last together in the travellers through the gentleness in their pure souls, and it will always remain so as long as the numbers stay in it, and as long as they can be told: Always be good to your souls and as long as my body moves I will be a river that flows in you all.

But when it is not so I too will become one of the numbers there.

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LIGHT

Viewers, listeners and readers, you are present on the day of wisdom, before you Plato is seated on the throne of the State, Shakespeare rhymes with Hamlet on the wall, Goethe christens his devil Mephistopheles, Sophocles weeps at Antigone’s birth, Pushkin challenges the Captain’s second daughter to a duel, Mozart using a lexicon studies the word note, Camus encounters the Outsider in himself...

Viewers, listeners and readers, around all these acquaintances of ours, immortal mortals and mortal immortals who live and die by their own and others’ wills please resurrect the applause of the public in front of all the microphones and fraudulent charts...

Viewers, listeners and readers, literate and illiterate alike, teachers, professors, deans, secret agents, spies and generals you are the living participants in the greatest sensation, you can see for yourselves that everywhere the halls are packed - in cities, on mountains, on oceans, and the cosmos has hired out its auditoriums the halls of speech, of laughter and of ridicule, all the halls on the sun are packed, and all the halls in every constellation too, every star has sent its representatives, chroniclers, reporters, correspondents, every black hole has sent its representatives only the meteors will be in the role of observers.

We are all waiting, they are all waiting while the temperature rises, cyclones, hurricanes, typhoons, we all want, we all desire wisdom’s representatives to say something ...

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Pushkin is mortally wounded in order to win the heart of the captain’s third daughter, Antigone is transformed into the board of a stage at Sophocles’ tomb, Mozart’s dead body has been thrown like musical dust into an unknown grave, Camus did not know whether it was worse to be a Plague or an Outsider...

But the representatives of all the planets, stars, meteors and comets, black holes and atoms were impatiently awaiting the word of wisdom: they were born, they lived and multiplied without knowing what death is, so much did they want wisdom to speak out, but wisdom lived out its own life easily, joyfully and thoughtfully, it was a light that was travelling timelessly into eternity.

NOVEL

I am the text of an advertisement: Let’s write a novel together, folks, the novel of our first encounter, the novel of our first love, let’s write together the history of our souls, our hearts.

Clear spring water will be born of it.

Isn’t it good that everyone writes about everyone, everyone writes about himself?

From it the Bible will begin to read the souls of spring’s awakening and to hear what there is within the novel that is written in everyone and in all, in the novel that is written in the joy of its own letters.

Let’s write a novel together, folks, the novel of our first encounter, the novel of our first love.

Everyone should read me, everyone understand me, everyone should read everyone everyone understand everyone.

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Vaginas, vaginas... eternal sovereign rulers of all our Suns and Venuses, gardens of wantonness, queens of passion...

Blind theatres dance in your light!

Vaginas, vaginas...

Caravans of Moons and tender flowers rivers of life, volcanoes and lava.

Lightning flashes multiply in the lowering thunder, earthquakes kindle in the pain of passion...

Listen to the drumbeat of the heart that cries out, everything is blinded by your light, everything melts in the pearls of your smile.

You have woken spring betimes with the music of your passion and drunken monsoons secretly tremble in a trance...

Vaginas, vaginas, blossoming beauties...

Before you cruise the pale fingers of the pianist and the smoke that dies down in the face of the candle of the night, his fingers with miraculous secrets entice your body, thirsty for love and longing to touch it.

Seaweed blossoms from your love, the sea blooms and the fish.

But the light here does not flicker, does not know the fish, does not touch the flowers and the waters of the sea.

Let the sea remain a secret to itself,

everything seeks to be gentle, to be close to your grace.

Finally the moment of the speech of our soul arrives.

Tell us, tell, the truth is here: with what harp do the strings of your passion awake.

We, titans of space, fall like tiny snowflakes on your breasts, your bodies arrange a secret feast for us, no one will know, see in silver baskets we send you flowers, carnations, roses, orchids.

Along the mighty waters of the Ganges and Bramaputra, hasten, the Tower is being built, Babylon invites you to love eight times on all of its eight levels, the Tigris calls you,

the Euphrates calls you, Luxor calls you, the sphinxes call you.

Tomorrow the pyramids will be decked with the tombs of all the pharaohs.

Amon Ra will come with the sun inside him wanting to meet you, wanting to touch you in the darkness of the pyramids, in the caves of passion.

STANDARD The man was standardly mad.

When there were clouds in the standard The man was standardly mad.

How many madmen in clouds there were!

What the clouds wanted was standard rain, but the rain fell ever harder.

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“Today is the Eighth of March,” was whispered among the flowers.

“Today is the day of passion, a loving embrace awaits you.”

CROSSROADS Will we ever understand it, our shared love?

We met at a crossroads, you gave me a flower, I gave you gentleness.

You set out on your road, I on mine.

And we have both travelled since that shared crossroads of ours.

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TIME STATION

Everything can fit into a point: space, silence, light, time.

Birth, time, death. But the point is time, which means it can live anywhere and everywhere. To be still, but also to be an eclipse on the path of a star, a constellation, the cosmos, the Universe‌ As long as all is in it, it can become nothing. It can die.

But, if a point can die, it also means it can be reborn, because it moves constantly. In its motion, it constantly grows becoming the biggest, becoming the Universe.

Therefore, it has to die again. In points.

In a point. Multiplied into universes.

Universes grown into a Universe.

Universe - born in a point. Point transformed into the soul of time, so it can live in it.

And because of that it wants to freeze in time, endlessly turning‌around its imaginary axis.

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Planetarism One point everywhere, everything in one point.

One art everywhere, everything in one art.

As part of this year’s Skopje Summer Festival, four films by Kiro Urdin were shown in the Mala Stanica venue of the National Gallery of Macedonia by way of homage to this distinguished artist. The Skopje public had the opportunity of seeing his films Planetarium, Dogs and Trains, Dogona and Pishta.

The painter and film director Kiro Urdin lived and worked in Paris from 1974. He is one of Macedonia’s best-established and best-selling painters, who in the past decade has also been engaged in film making.

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camera or his paintbrush. He goes much further, exploring and interpreting life, filming it and painting it in all its radiance and its spectrum of colours. In world-wide terms Urdin is to be numbered among the leading cosmopolitan artists, globe-trotting documetors of the planet Earth.

It is in this sense that Dogs and Trains poses the question: What is it that is closest to art – that which cannot be understood or that which is impossible? This is how Urdin introduces the age-old topic of the link between art and life. He does not shy away from stating his own scruples about our modest capacities, our imperfections. On the contrary, he counters them with dimensions of his own reality, spontaneity, spirituality, timelessness and infinity, categories experienced to a certain extent but not fully comprehended. A painter need not necessarily travel far to portray his daydreams and imaginings, the pictures already prepared in his mind, but Urdin as an artist wants to feel the concrete, bare, vital experience of travelling, of space, of authentic knowing, to draw upon the diversity of civilisations, to

make contact with the essence of life... and of death. And what can be more disturbing, more thrilling and more enlightening than the wisdom of the Dogon people: a celebration in honour of death?

And yet this idea was conceived long ago at a time when the young Urdin was wandering through Montmatre, when the clochards of Paris were to be numbered among his friends, when he filmed Pishta, a poor soul, an urchin dear to God but now grown old, whose act of self-immolation could not be interpreted otherwise than as a celebration of the birth of death, a revelation and a liberation. So it was that, twenty-seven years after shooting the first sequences of Pishta, Urdin brought us Pishta the clochard’s departure for paradise. And Venko Serafimovski was to illustrate it discreetly and elegiacally with his own piano version of an ode to Bohemians, not in the style of Beethoven, but his own appropriate Ode to Street Innocents.

Two years later, when dogs and trains crossed paths, Urdin registered that magical and cyclical passage of fate: Illusion is a Mystery, Mystery is Reality, Reality is Illusion. And the obvious truth that we are all thirsty for water, but also the well known metaphor that only love thirsts for fire. And it is precisely that love, as the rudder guiding Urdin throughout his creative quest, that succeeds in kindling the fire of the world, in revealing the radiance of Earth’s globe, a radiance visible only from other planets.

Urdin’s films awaken in us our dormant sentiments of and need for companionship among people, remind us of the almost forgotten tactile forms of communications.

Urdin is something quite rare among creative artists: an obstinate optimist, an incurable apologist for beauty, art and life. Yet he is no ideologist of joy but a realist, an artist of flesh and blood whom this planet has taught to respect death, too, as much as he does life.

In this context it is only right and proper to mention those people without whom Urdin’s films might have been other than what they are: Ivan Mitevski – Coppola, as the director of Planetarium, the cinematographer Vladimir Petrovski-Carter and Venko Serafimovski, mentioned previously, the composer of the music/sound track in the majority of Urdin’s films.

For Urdin humanity is his motive, art his tool and love his message. This is Kiro Urdin’s Planetarism, the building of civilisational bridges between cultures. In shooting Planetarium he assembles on the screen, his canvas, traces of the sky over Berlin, the marble of Sacré Coeur, the milk of the shewolf of Rome, the ashes of Pompeii, the waters of the Ganges and the sands of Africa . . . all of these traces of this world on a single canvas, all thoughts in a single space . . . and the message is love.

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I spent three nights there with tramps and other vagrants. Every now and then a police officer or some other official would warn us that sleeping is not allowed in the metro. But none of us paid attention. On the fourth day I left my abode and headed for the Place du Tertre. In those days Paris was all charm and saga. It appeared as if it had transformed the proud Gallic idyll into eternity. I was under 260

the impression that everybody loved everybody. That afternoon, among other painters, I met a friend from home town. I spent the next three months in a cellar that he vacated for me, free of charge. He dropped by every day just to leave his painting gear there. The cellar had an earth floor, there was no electricity, no water, no toilet. It was damp everywhere. The mattress smelled of mold. After some twenty days I began to feel chest pains.

It must be tuberculosis, I thought. And yet I was lucky - I had a roof over my head. From time to time, during the night, an insect or rat would run over me... The darkness of the cellar gripped my soul like a steel clamp. But all this had already become part of my life.

Paris. A late November night, and it had not stopped raining for three days.

Through my studio window I watched the dark silhouette of an exhausted dog.

Its slow stride revealed its old age. To the left stood a container full of garbage. I could catch a glimpse of my latest painting in the depths of my studio. I watched it silently. It was worn out and without soul. It looked like a squeezed mass hurled into space. I was helpless and lonely in my despair. I wanted to destroy it, to burn it up, but I did not have the strength to walk the distance from the window to the painting.

Passing through many American cities, Michael and I arrived in New Orleans. I was running out of money. We were planning to spend the night in a deserted boat. However, a friend of ours introduced us to a lady who agreed to give us a room for three dollars. Madam Olson had been a Hollywood starlet in the 30s.

The walls of her apartment were plastered with photographs from her young days. The glory of her bygone beauty loomed over all those photographs. The apartment had three rooms. In each room there was a TV set and many lightbulbs. She immediately warned us that in her home they had to be turned on at all times. The

windows in all the rooms were walled up. The sight excited hopelessness. It seemed as if Madame Olson had painted a fresco of her loneliness in this sealed space. Were the lightbulbs and the TV sets which were always turned on the windows of her soul? And yet, during that night, as we were trying to get some sleep, it seemed that the old age of this lonely woman bounced off the walls of...

My dear child Today is November 6 1996. This morning I touched for the very first time the tomb of Jesus Christ and wept for the soul of my mother, of my father and of all poor souls. The Son of God, crucified and eternal, was above me on the cross. It seemed that the pain of Golgotha hovered above the candle smoke. Then I passed by the Wailing Wall, and the scent of eternity was in the Jerusalem air. That night I had a premonition. I realised that I must burn my Planetarium in eternal Jerusalem in order to resurrect the spirit of new offspring, Planetarium.

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The artist KIRO URDIN has dedicated twenty months to the execution of this work in different places of our planet: The Berlin Wall, Nerezi, Ohrid, Brussels, Knokke-le-Zoute, Bruges, Paris, Rome, Pompeii, Pisa, the Channel, London, Stonehenge, Athens, Cape Soúnion, the Tomb of Jesus Christ and the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem, Suez, the Nile, the Great Pyramid at Giza, Kenya (Masai

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It presents the different cultures of the world and its different regions. It presents itself as a multimedia project, as an integration and synthesis of several arts such as painting, cinema, photography, music and video.

The aim is to bring together and unite artists from around the world into a new art movement called “Planetarism”.

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by Kiro Urdin and Ivan Mitevski was awarded first place for the best documentary film at the prominent NY International Independent Film and Video festival in the United States.

Planetarium is a multimedia project that incorporates several artistic media—painting, photography, film, dance and music.

At the center of this project is a painting by the most internationally established Macedonian artist – Kiro Urdin. The painting, which is 23 square meters; more precisely it is two paintings—one of which the artist burned in Jerusalem—that have been painted in different locations during a great journey throughout the world, a journey covering Ohrid, Skopje, Brussels, Paris, Rome, Pompei, Pisa, London, Stonehenge, Athens, Jerusalem, the Egyptian pyramids, Kenya’s Masai Mara, New York, Cuzco, Bangkok, the Forbidden city in Beijing, the Great Chinese Wall, Tokyo, Kamakura—an endless movement through space and time. This project, painted in far away places, symbolically brings together the world in one undivided unity.

“I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space” writes Shakespeare in Hamlet. One powerful artist’s imagination can put the dimensions of our planet in a little nutshell or a DVD: if you open it, bold light emerges, the colors of a rainbow are interchanging and you can hear wonderful music. Far away places, surreal fields, unusual buildings, questioning faces are in front of us like a dream. Time and space are condensed and unified. Everything starts and ends with

Kiro Urdin’s attempt to integrate the world into one painting.

Marcus Aurelius says that whatever period in history – century, year, a single night, may not be understandable reality or this unrepeatable moment contains all of history. The belief in such a history made Kopenhauer compare history with a kaleidoscope, in which the images are changing but not the pieces of colored glass. He believes that history is an endless dream of mankind. A dream that all of us dream. Or maybe there has always been one man from the beginning of the world until now, who dreams all of us. If the world is someone’s dream, if there is somebody who is dreaming of us and is dreaming the history of the universe, the destruction of religions and arts, and burning all the libraries and buildings of the past, in somebody’s dream, it is not more important than the destruction of furniture. The ghost that dreamt them, will dream them again, and while the ghost keeps on dreaming, nothing will be lost, says Borges.

Watching Kiro Urdin’s documentary movie, which shows the process of making the painting Planetarium, I had impression that I was dreaming Kiro Urdin’s dream, who dreams the dream of mankind: all pain and sadness, all happiness and delightfulness, all turmoil and longing, all suffering and love, all lost moments that are beyond retrieval disappeared and now are glittering like grains of sand in the desert of our lives, all the drama of our uncertain existence, all our roaming on the road, a long road on which we walk together – all in one singular painting.

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“KIRO HAD BEEN INSPIRED BY OTHER CULTURES, WHICH LED ME TO ENVISION A DANCE PIECE INSPIRED BY THE THEMES OF MULTICULTURALISM AND HARMONY. I DON’T WANT TO DEFINE CULTURES, BUT RATHER TO SHOW THAT OUR DIFFERENT STYLES OF DANCE CAN MERGE TOGETHER INTO ONE HOMOGENOUS GROUP.” DEBBIE WILSON “THE GLOBE AND MAIL, TORONTO, FEBRUARY 2003”

Choreography : Debbie Wilson Set design : Kiro Urdin Music : Venko et Vasko Serafi mov Photography : David Hou

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Debbie Wilson has been creating works as an independent producer in both Ontario and Quebec since 1990. In 1994, she embarked on a new path as founder and Artistic Director of the OMO Dance Co., for which she has created a growing repertoire of critically acclaimed works.

Omo Dance Company is a dynamic, multiracial company that engages and excites its audiences through Debbie Wilson’s critically acclaimed choreography, and through collaborations with outstanding composers, artists and designers. OMO’s wide appeal to both dance-related and popular audiences has garnered Debbie Wilson the “Best Local Choreographer” award in the Toronto-based NOW Magazine’s readers’ poll for 2000, 2001 and 2003. OMO has shown an impressive annual increase in audience attendance, and is one of Toronto’s most prolifi ccompanies.

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That’s how the Dogons got to Bandiagara.

Here in the massif of the Yugo the first Sigi began, in honour of the first one to die. The masked dancers danced every sixty years recalling the moment when death was first born. Olobolu, the dancer with the big snake mask, leapt about with a marvellous lightness while his soul was full of Ama, Nomo and the eight ancestors.

It seemed as if the prayer of the oldest Dogon was issuing from the great mask as he lifted up his arms towards Nomo and the other ancestors. He prayed that rain would fall, that the fields sown with onions, rice and corn would be watered. That the pregnant women would have easy births. They believed in the power of the almighty, who had succeeded in 290

uniting space and time. He knew from what his grandfather had told him that only the body can die, the spirit not, that it was a part of Ama. Neither could it die, nor be born.

He gazed at the sacred paths. The spirits are here, around us. They see us, they love us, but they also punish our sins. That’s why you must always take care. Everything has a soul.

Even death. Life and death live side by side, like the earth and the sky.

He went barefoot all his life. He felt neither stones, nor sand, nor thorns. His skin was as hard as the drought. The eight totems protected him from everything. Even from thirst. Less and less rain fell. Sometimes, in Bandiagara, during the days of the Tellems, the great wizards, there were herds of antelopes, lions and leopards. But they’d all vanished because of the drought. The plants, insects and birds too. The sand had become their graveyard. Everyone was praying for rain. Even the dead. From time to time the Tellems appeared as a sandstorm, accompanied by their vanished herds, or in company with the white fox. But the Dogons remained here, their spirit survived. The rice continued to grow and ripen to harvest. The onions too.

The skilled hands of the Dogons went on fashioning figurines and masks.

The mornings, when the darkness still clung to the landscape, the infants, grown one with their mothers’ backs, mutely watched the first blows of the mattocks. The fields had to be sown. The first rains had only just fallen. And their older

brothers and sisters were still sleeping without a care in the world under the mantle of the stars.

Then his grandfather went on with his tale: Before the time of Doyogu-Seru, the first man to die, death had not existed. That was why the Dogons made the great snake mask, in honour of the birth of death. When you were born continued his grandfather - the rains dried up for three years. The sun grew bigger each day.

By night new stars emerged. It began to seem to the Dogons as if they slept on stars, there were so many of them. The women stopped wailing over death and instead of weeping over it they wept over thirst. But the dancers were here, the masks, the figurines with their arms raised to Ama, to Nomo, the dead ancestors whose spirits, living here beside them, the eight living totems which protected them - the living power of Nyama.

Thirst gave way in face of that protecting power. So the plants did not dry up, the infants grew, only the birds didn’t fly, the air was too hot. Soon heavy rains fell. The livestock were watered after such a long time when not a drop of rain had fallen.

Dolo remembered when his grandfather had died. It was May. The masked dancers wove in a spiral around their house. The dead body of his ancestor was placed in a freshly hollowed-out tree trunk on the verandah, and in a trance the oldest Dogon explained, by means of mime, the symbols and the genesis of the cosmos. Night had long since fallen and it was as if the almighty Ama was riding on its shoulders. At one moment it seemed to him that the eight totems were sitting on his grandfather’s body, exchanging greetings with the spirit that had not yet left his body.

Dolo was captivated by the dancers, the masks, the figurines, by the mannikin of death, and the sacrifice was brought out, that meant that Nomo was here too, Ama

was there. And all the ancestors. Space had merged into a single point. The stars, wind, fire, water and time too. From the other side the sound of tools could be heard. One of the neighbours was completing the sculpture which was to be sacrificed. On the other side of the fence the children were drawing something incomprehensible. That morning they had hoped that the white fox would pass across the picture so that the holy ones could figure out the augury. And the children drew and played innocently and purely as their childlike hearts bade them.

Dolo recalled the words of his grandfather.

Death has a soul, he said, everyone has a body and several souls, and a living power, and is born and lives in water. It is everything. When a baby is born, it drinks water through the milk. Before death the old people ask for water. Everything is born in it: light, wind, earth, even fire. Plants, insects, birds.

The soul. Even the deserts are created by water. At night, when everyone is asleep, water is transformed into a bird with enormous wings that flies over Bandiagara. In the morning it vanishes with the sun. And when Ama decides the sand can be transformed into rain, the desert into a sea. Life flows for a time, joy returns, men love only water more than their women. But when it vanishes, fear puts in an appearance, pain, hunger, thirst...

Dolo felt happy at all this. His soul laughed.

Death seemed to him to be the shadow of Sirius, lying upon the body of his grandfather. He rejoiced in the dancers’ airy leaping.

And the spirits of all the other dead were there somewhere in the offing. At dusk they would have to set off for the marvellous land of the ancestors, to the realm of the holy spirits. Everything was everlasting that night, the spirits could neither be born nor die.

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He had made up his mind to be a friend to everyone. To everything. Even if they proclaimed him an outsider. As an emigrant of the soul.

Had he really once been born? Did he have a mother, a father . . . a birthplace, a sky of his own? It seemed to him that his whole life had taken place in only one day. He didn’t even want to know about it.

He travelled on and on. Travelled to where he would never reach. Through the walls of his solitude.

And did the stars know this? How many nights he had spent under them! If only he could have come closer to them!

If only he could turn the waters of the rivers into alcohol! into steam! How much less painfully would his soul sail in that case! He understood it was his fate to travel in freedom, in time, without wife, without children, without a home.

But the streets stretched out in his soul like an endless road. Towns came to resemble each other. The highways too. Streets paved, muddy, twisted, colourful, broad, narrow. Streets with no horizon.

Yet his steps had their own purpose. They stepped out of their own accord. They were the steps of his life which was passing.

Streets without houses, without trees. Only walls and more walls. Paving-stones drawn from the womb of the underworld.

His music was the wind which journeys everywhere - and why not think of the wind as flights of music. The trees of a dessicated life . . . But wasn’t that all this a delusion? He thought of himself as a shadow moving along roads, through towns that no longer existed. In his soul there lived rivers, fish, clouds, birds, the winds and the scales. The scales, flights he ascended and descended. Now downwards towards life, now up into the clouds. He wanted to touch them, to be a bird, flying free in the wind. To become a cloud, his soul falling in the rain, bearing the seed of life.

Yet at one moment he did think to himself: have I gone mad? Nothing is clear to me any more, and it never will be.

His memories were like a broken reel of film with strange, faint images. Some of the pictures were scribbled over with irregular lines, others damaged by the fangs of time.

How swiftly his youth and his whole life had passed. The cavaliers of the nocturnal life had long since gone for ever. But his decision had already been made.

The flight of three steps, the paving-stones, the wall. Here he found new friends once more.

Fate had drawn them to one place. Birds. Dogs.

Those bohemians of hunger and alcohol.

On the streets there was no water anywhere, not a drop. And they were parched with thirst, drunk with thirst. Each one of them was alone. Each of them lived for the others.

In his soul now lived all souls. The clouds, the rain and the steps. The steps he continued to take, ascending and descending in life. So was he not a constant traveller, fated to bear the hump of loneliness?

Why did he drink? Why did he sleep under the stars, winter and summer, in the cold and in the fog? More and more steps. Towns and cities. Endless paths and roads. The corridors of solitude . . .

Yet so it continued until he came across the three steps. He fell in love with them immediately. For ever. Passionately. His soul began to ascend and descend them. He quivered day and night. Breathless, timeless. So began their romance . . .

And so he began to speak. He talked and talked.

About himself. To himself. He wanted to announce something to the stars, to the steps, to the walls, to the flagstones, to the birds. To be close to them. He resolved not to go anywhere any more. To stay here. Just here. Now the three steps were the temple of the holy words to which he would go. Where he would tread.

He had not come here to leave again just like that. He had come to stay. He had fallen in love for the first time. At last the play of his life had halted to listen to the speech of the traveller who had said nothing. He talked and talked. He was convinced that the time that had flown past was a train seized-up on a rusty track. This was the point he had been searching for. Life.

The thirst for life. They were all thirsty, and not a drop of water in the streets. And so they were drunk with thirst. Why did the birds visit him so often?! Why did the dogs bark here?! Everything had its own significance. That is why he was forever thirsty. That is why he never stopped speaking.

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• The enemy’s enemy digs his grave, the friend’s friend graves.

• If you’ve no more space to live in, restrict yourself!

• The first unfaithfulness is contained in the chances missed before.

• From what page of their life should the biographies of the generals begin?

• There’s no stupider creature than a man; he always thinks he ought to start first.

• Isn’t it a good sign when everybody starts to spit on works of art?

• Which is the part of an angle from which we can see equally?

• I’ve reached the station of time, the train goes on without me.

• What’s the difference between a fatal mistake and a femme fatale: the fatal mistake

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• So which is closer to art - what others can’t understand, or what they can’t do?

• • Love is like grapes, at first they’re sweet, then they grow bitter and in the end they ferment.

• When a person has ‘flu we cure it.

When a bird has ‘flu we slaughter it.

• Be free in your error, in it lives the human being that survives in you.

• What was the name of the man who helped you? Or have you long since forgotten?

• Make no comment on stupidity, it lacks all content.

• Think well and long - writing is a swift process.

• Everything has a short life, even eternity.

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n astronome at Parenal in Chile, the largest observatory in the world, speaks about the latest dicscoveries about the Universe.

Then we learn about the first steps of the pre-historic man in the vicinity of Kilimanjaro, made 3,6 million years ago.

Then the main story follows. The flora and fauna as they have been created. Life as the primary postulate of the Universe on the beatuful planet Earth. The wondrous harmony between the animals and plants.

The water and air as source of life. Fire as God’s gift from thunder. Then the main thing follows - the men. The one creation that is most conscious starts destroying

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it all. Even the fire, water and air can’t defend from him. Lest the animals, the plants, the trees, the forests, etc. Nature counteracts with harsh winds, floods, forest fires...

Is that the end? The vector of life on planet Earth points to that direction.

The last lion, elephant, zebra, insect, bird, tree, plant, egg remain... But it’s death to all of them, because they don’t have a pair.

Man wants to be immortal for eternity, but that’s death for the planet Earth. Isn’t it?

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Macedonia 1969 Obtains a degree at the Law Faculty of Belgrade University 1971-73 He works as a journalist 1972 Chiefset designer for telecasts “You with us too”, “Contact” both dealing with works of Beethoven, Verdi, Mozart, Chopin and Monteverdi.

1974 Student at the “Academie des Arts Plastiques” in Paris 1977 Obtains a Degree of Cinema Director from the ”Academy of Cinema” in Paris.

1982-83 Executes the portraits of participants in the renowned “Soirees Poetiques de Struga” series (Neruda, Montale, Orlov, Okai, Guivellic).

1984 He starts to work as independent painter in diff erents countries : France, USA, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Taiwan, 1984 Writes and publishes the book “Le dedoublement de la personnalite”.

1987 Gains mention in the reference work”Le Dessin, le Pastel et l’Aquarelle of the contemporary arts”, published by Editions Mayer.

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1995 Represents France at the French Art Festival in Tapei.

1996 Cover of the book of Jacques Delors “Combats pour l’Europe”.

1997 Cover of the book of Anatoli Karpov “Mes plus belles victores”.

1997 He represents the Republic of Macedonia in Thessaloniki – Culture Capital of Europe ’97.

1995-97 He travels around the world and realizes Planetarium a multimedia project including painting, film, photos 1998-02 Writes 8 books of poetry and aphorisms in french and english 2003 Planetarium becomes a worldwide ballet performance created by the choreograher Debbie Wilson 2005 Member of the Arts & Science Academy of Macedonia 2007 Exhibition at the Science Academy of Skopje and Budapest 2008 Represents Macedonia at the Festival de la Francophonie de Moscou in Russia.

2009 Invited by the City of Nuremberg, Germany, to exhibit at the National Gallery.

SELFPORTRAIT

My earliest knowledge begins with my greatgrandfather, Constantine. I don’t know what my great-grandmother’s name was. They came from Salonica and had fourteen children, twelve of whom died one after the other.

The thirteenth was my grandfather, Vasil, and the fourteenth his sister, Tina.

My father was called Michael and my mother Makedonka, as is my daughter. But to begin with myself.

I am average in all things: of average height, of average weight, of average years and the colour of my hair is average. My mother and father were average too. And of course my three brothers and my sister are average.

I wasn’t present at the moment of my birth.

Time moved fast then. During the First World War my father was still a child, but even then he had made up his mind that I would be his youngest son. His wish was fulfilled towards the end of the Second World War. It was the month of May and three fortune-tellers told me that the flowers were still smelling of gunpowder. After that moment a good many years passed and peace reigned everywhere.

Countries were transformed into flower gardens. There were no more wars, no more dead, wounded, starving... There was no injustice, evil or force. When I completed my studies everybody started to judge me. In order to improve my rating, I started with legal norms, and fell headlong into the loopholes in the law. There they convinced me that life beyond the grave can easily be buried.

Because I had little patience for documents I began to paint them and then to record them on film. This same fact ohad undesirable consequences that started to multiply. Their number increased so rapidly that there wasn’t room for them all any more. The only way out was to surrender my space to them. The consequences demanded that I should understand their causes. So on average I became a point, so that nobody noticed me any more. Now my destiny depends upon the place where they insert me in their written texts. But if anyone asks me what my wish is, my response is this: because I am a point I don’t want to remain in any one place but to be in perpetual motion.

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FILMOGRAPHY

1978 Pishta - Film 35 mm, 12 min, - OSMOSA Prod.

DOGONA

1994 I love you, Iban, - Film 16 mm, 25 min. – MKRTV Prod.

2002 Film, 16 mm, coul., 26 min., MKRTV Prod.

Official selection - Festival de Lucerne 2005 - Rose d’Or

1998 L’art de Kiro Urdin - Film 16mm, 20 min, MKRTV Prod.

PLANETARIUM

2006 Train Dog – Film video H.D., 36 min, Osmoza Prod.

1998 Planetarium - Film, 35 mm coul., 70 min. – MKRTV

WATER & FIRE

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2008 Film video H.D., 59 min, Osmoza Prod.

1998 Offi cial Sйlection – 38иme Festival de TV de Monte-Carlo.

2008 Grand Prix - International Film Festival of Sarajevo, Bosnia

1998 Projection at the Centre Georges Pompidou – Paris.

2009 Winner “Best Director” et “Best Cinematography” - International Independent Film Festival of New York 2009

2002 Projection at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico.

2003 Multimedia project, painting, photography, cinema, video, music, litterature and dance – OMO Dance Debbie Wilson Co., performance in Toronto, Heraclea, Ohrid, Skopje, Chicago, Geneva.

2005 Winner “Best Movie” - International Independent Film Festival of New York in Los Angeles.

2006 Projection at the Museum of Skopje.

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2003 Presentation at UNESCO, Paris.

2009 Grand Prix, Europian Film Festival “Green Wall”, Bulgaria 2009 Grand Prix “ECO” - International TV Festival, Ohrid, R. Macedonia

PRESS

Paris Match

Le Monde

Le Figaro

Le Monde Diplomatique Herald Tribune

New York Times

Aspen Daily News

Vernissage

Dnevnik

Eindhovens Dagblad

Aftenposten

Pravda

Toronto Star

Daily World

Libre Belgique

L’Hebdo, Lausanne

The San Juan Star

El Nuevo Dia

L’Echo Bruxelles

De Tijd

Forum Artis, Modena Jet Society International Kulturen Zivot, Skopje Honolulu Star Bulletin Mainichi Shimbun Yomiuri Shimbun Asahi Shimbun China post China news Independence Evening Post Taiwan Beau Arts Magazine L’oeil Amateur d’art Gazette de Genève Gazette Drouot Tribune des Arts El Mundo Knack Het Nieuwsblad

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BIBLIOGRPHY

1986 Dubois, Jacques Kiro Urdin: Un message de fraternite, L’amateur d’ art, Paris, Sept. 1986, No.729, p.16 1987 Xuriguera, Gerard (Preface- catalogue) Kiro Urdin, Paris, Espace Delpha, 1987 Lalonde, Peggy, He has started a new dimension in watercolor, Daily Word, 21.01 1987 1988 Xuriguera, Gérard (Preface- catalogue), Kiro Urdin, Paris, E.F.F.A., 1988 1989 Importants tableaux abstraits et Contemporains, La Gazette, No. 20, 19.05 1989 D.D. Kiro Urdin un Réel Liquéfié, L’ Hebdo, Lausanne, 15. 06.1989,7975,p.14 J.-C.P. Kiro Urdin: L’aquarelle avec la force de

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l’huile, Gasette de Genève,Tribune des Arts, Geneve, 1989, No. 99,p. 17 Piguet, Philippe Kiro Urdin, Genève, L’oeil, Lausanne, 1989, No. 407, p.86 Geithus, Kjell Monmartre i Sandnes, Lokalt, 14. 09. 1989, p. 6 Reymond, Armande Matiéres Vivantes. Kiro Urdin à la Galerie Catherine Van Notten, à Genève Voir, Lausanne, 1989, No. 60, p.8-11 1990 Challenges New Expression – Exhibition of Kiro Urdin, Ehime Shimbun, 6.01. 1990.

Corinne Timsit International Galleries, Elephant Man (reproduction, p.68), El Nuevo Dia, 14. 09.1990 Allegre Barrios, Mano La sensibilidad institiva de Kiro Urdin, El Nuevo Dia, San Juan, 16. 10. 1990, p. 88 Marili de Laosa Explosion de arte en San Juan, El Mundo, 7.

09. 1989 Debrune, Johan Meesterlijke Urdin bij Robinsons Knoke, De Krant van West – Vlaanderen, Brugge, 31. 8.

1990, p. 22 Ferrier, Jean – Louis Art for the being ( In) Kiro Urdin ( catalogue), Paris, TMI – Connivence Editor, 1990 Rey, Stéphane Figuration libre et Contagion de L’informel, La Libre Belgique, Bruxelles, 5. 09. 1990, No. 248 ( Culture, No. 44, p.21) Rubin, Ada (Preface- Catalogue) Kiro Urdin, San Juan, Corrine Timsit International Galleries, 1990 El Mundo, San Juan Puerto Rico, 23 Septiembre 1990 Ernesto J. Ruiz de la Mata De la materia, El Mundo, Puerto Rico, 30 Septembre 1990, p.6,7 Samuel B. Cherson Interesantes muestras de pintores de tierras, El nuevo Dia, Puerto Rico, 2 Novembre 1990, p.

104,105 Teodosievski, Zlatko Slikite na Kiro Urdin (Kiro Urdin’s Paintings), Kulturen zivot, Skopje, 1990, No. 9-10, p. 31, 32 1991 Galerie Paris, Art Top, No. 121, February – March 1991, p. 22 Exhibition - Kiro Urdin, Ars Nova, Japan, No.4, April 1991, p. 25 Close up, Ars Nova, No. 6, 1991, p. 15 (front page reproduction).

De Cnodder, Remi La puissance eruptive de la forme et de la couleur (preface- catalogue) Kiro Urdin, Knokke – Zoute, Robinson Gallery, 1991 Miljoenen – dans rond Pavaraotti, Prive, 14 Sept. 1991 Jet Society International, Paris, No. 31, 1991 (cover page reproduction: “ The Elephant Man”, 1989) Mathieu, Denis F. Kiro Urdin. A la poursuite de l’essentiel, Jet Society International, Paris, 1991, No.31, p.

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Kiro Urdin: Matiere, Mouvement, Emotion, Paris Match, Paris, 1.08. 1991, p. 92-95 Rey, Stéphane Amour des textes, des lignes et des coulleurs, Cortot, Cornelis, Urdin, Peire, naïfs, ensemble, L’Echo, Bruxelles, 24-26. 08. 1991 1992 Berg, Ulf Tecknare och temperament, Kultur, Galleri Flesser i Helsingborg, 20 January 1992, p. 28 Wagner, Stephan “ De hårda Åren Lärde mig ödmjukhen”, Helsingborgs Dagblag, 5.07. 1992, p.21 Xuriguera, Gérard Kiro Urdin: Un expressivite rebelle a dimension humaine, Paris Match, Paris, 20. 08.

1992, p. 10-13 Carlson, Larsolof Individuel frigörelse, Helsingborg, 10. 10.

1992 Jaustad, Hans Omsusat konstnärsöde, Kiro Urdin stäler ut på Gelleri Flesser I Halsingborg Arbetet, Malmo, 13. 10. 1992, p. 16 Kiro ar hett byte (cover page) Arbetet, Malmö, 13. 10. 1992 Toebosch, Wim (preface – catalogue) Kiro Urdin, Paris, Art Intenational Publishers, 1992 1993 Lång, Helmer Kiro Urdin och konsteins heliga eld, Skånska Dagbladet, Helsingborg, 27. 02. 1993, p. 4 Kiro Urdin, Dynamism, No.133 Japan, February – March 1993, p. 88,89.

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Venko Serafimov

Brand Ferro

Debbie Wilson

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Anne Wouters

Marin Dimeski

Paul Walleyn

Petar Dzurovski and Peter Suschitzky

Dragi Tanevski and Ivan Mitevski

David Hou

Guy Brecksmans

Blagoja Kunovski – Dore, Billy Williams

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Tokyo

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Marin Dimeski, K. U., Viktor Ivanov, Ivan Mitevski,

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Luciano Pavarotti, Mr. Pieter van Vollenhoven

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K.U., Andrea Griminelli

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Anatolij Karpov, K.U., Jovan Pavlevski

The Neatherlands

Gerard H. Meulensteen

Mick Fleetwood (Fleetwood Mac band)

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Linda, Guy Pieters with Edwin, Gerard and Riky Meulensteen

Baron and Baroness Ricki and Sandra Portanova, Acapulco

Baroness Danièle Bacardi and Donna Urdin

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