KIRO URDIN
TABULA RASA
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Tabula Rasa (2022) – price upon request
Oil on Canvas & Lost Objects
287 x 960 cm
50 works from COVID Time Performance (2021) – 5'500 EUR each
Oil on Paper
36 x 26 cm approx. (in 65 x 55 cm frame)
Pantera (Red Night) (2018) – 60'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
200 x 150 cm
Regenesis (2021) – 60'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
200 x 150 cm
The Dark Side of the Moon (2021) – 60'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
150 x 200 cm
Pink Paradise (2019) – EUR 60'000
Oil on Canvas
200 x 150 cm
Nucleus (2021) – 60'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
200 x 150 cm
Man of the Red Planet (2021) – 30'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
140 x 160 cm
First Life (2019) – 35'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
200x 120 cm
Academia (2021) – 30'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 140 cm
Alpha Galaxy (2021) – 25'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 120 cm
Renaissance Model (2020) – 25'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 120 cm
Infinity (2020) – 25'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
120 x 160 cm
Spiritual (2022) – 30'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 140 cm
Medici (2020) – 25'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 120 cm
Blue Thinker (2019) – 25'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 120 cm
Blue Mysticism (2021) – 25'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
160 x 120 cm
Prince (2018) – 60'000 EUR
Oil on Canvas
200 x 150 cm
Cubist Rising (2018) – EUR 12'000
Oil on Canvas
100 x 80 cm
Explorer (2018) – EUR 8'000
Watercolor on Paper
60 x 45.5 cm
La Ronde (2018) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
57 x 75.5 cm
Incantations (2018) – EUR 8'000
Watercolor on Paper
60 x 45 cm
Matchman (2019) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
75 x 56.5 cm
Massarossa (2019) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
76 x 56 cm
Positivity (2019) – EUR 8'000
Watercolor on Paper
60 x 45 cm
Work (2006-2018) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
75 x 55.5 cm
Forest Spirit (2019) – EUR 8'000
Watercolor on Paper
60 x 45 cm
Citizen (1995-2018) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
57 x 75 cm
Earth Spirit (2019) – EUR 8'000
Watercolor on Paper
45.5 x 60 cm
Plural Singularity (2018) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
77 x 57 cm
Second Thought (2005-2018) – EUR 12'000
Watercolor on Paper
57.5 x 75 cm
A work from COVID Time Performance (2021) – EUR 5'500
Oil on Paper
31.5 x 23.5 cm
KIRO URDIN
(MACEDONIA / FRANCE, 1945)
A lawyer turned journalist, Kiro Urdin studied art and cinema in Paris in the seventies and has been painting since 1985. He is known for his energetic paintings which have been exhibited worldwide since 1986 in cities like Paris, Yokohama, Los Angeles, London, Stockholm and Bratislava. During the same period, in 1988, Kiro went to New York and Hollywood to pursue his film ambitions. There he directed four films, and he keeps on directing documentaries and experimental films today.
In 1996 Kiro embarked on an epic journey around the world to create the first painting to be worked on all over the world. His idea was to incorporate a piece from every place he visited, thus symbolically bringing the world together in one undivided unity. It took him two years and over thirty locations, from big urban cities to ancient world sites: the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and the Tomb of Jesus Christ, New York, The Berlin Wall, Ohrid, Brussels, Knokke-Zoute, Bruges, Paris, Rome, Pompeii, Pisa, the Suez Canal, London, Stonehenge, Athens, the Nile, the Great Pyramids in Giza, Kenya, Machu Picchu, Cuzco, Bangkok, the Forbidden City and the Great Wall of China, Tokyo, Kamakura, Mont Saint-Michel, and Eindhoven.
The result of Kiro’s two-year journey is a 48 square meter oil painting entitled Planetarium.
A Macedonian film crew was hired to document the effort. Planetarium. the documentary film was subsequently released. Directed by Ivan Mitevski, it won Best Documentary at the New York International Independent Film and Documentary Festival in 2005. A monograph with photos taken during the two-year trip by Marin Dimevski was released simultaneously to the movie. Today the painting is exhibited at the Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum in Bratislava.
Planetarium Dance is collaboration project between Kiro Urdin and Toronto-based choreographer Debbie Wilson. On seeing the film, Debbie approached Kiro and proposed to expand the Planetarium experience through a new medium - dance. Macedonian composer Venko Serafimov was called onboard to compose the music for the dance. The ballet features eight dancers from Wilson’s own troupe, a local Toronto contemporary dance company, and seven from the classically trained Macedonian National Theatre. Planetarium Dance premiered at the Toronto Dance Theater (Canada), and since has been performed in Ohrid, Heraclea, Skopje, Chicago, Ankara, and during the commemoration of the United Nations 60th Anniversary in Geneva (Switzerland).
Urdin’s work has evolved beyond traditional media like film and paintings to include dance, sculpture, literature, photography, philosophy and design. He has published over 15 books, some with his thousands of aphorisms, and one book of poetry entitled Novel, from which his poem Light was selected for the Pushkin Festival in Moscow.
Working from Belgium, Macedonia and the U.S.A., Kiro Urdin is vibrantly driven in his efforts by one unifying philosophy: to bridge different cultures together, and to bring all art forms into one. Or as he defines the slogan of the Planetarism movement which he founded:
“One Point everywhere, everything in one point. One Art everywhere, everything in one Art.”
Selected Exhibitions
Solo exhibitions
2022 De Zwarte Panter, Belgium
2021 Kloser Contemporary Art, Online
2021 MM Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2020 MM Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2019 Kloser Contemporary Art, Online
2018 Ningbo Museum, Ningbo, China
2018 Robert Kidd Gallery, Detroit, USA
2017 MM Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2016 Tom D. Jones Gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
2016 Louise Gallery, Durbuy, Belgium
2015 MM Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2014 Ningbo Museum, Ningbo, China
2013 Museum of the City of Skopje, Skopje, Macedonia
2012 Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
2009 National Gallery, Nuremberg, Germany
2009 Galerie Frédéric Moisan, Paris, France
2008 Represented Macedonia at the Festival de la Francophonie, Moscow, Russia
2007 Galerie Paris, Yokohama, Japan
2005 Restrospective at the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts, Skopje, Macedonia
2004 Gallery Kamil, Monte Carlo, Monaco
2003 Gallerie Anouck Vilain, Belgium
2002 Guy Pieters Gallery, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
2000 Danubiana Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
1999 Gallery Kamil, Aspen, USA
1998 Gallery Kamil, Monte Carlo, Monaco
1998 Galerie Frank, Paris, France
1996 Miura Museum, Hokkaido, Japan
1996 Galeria Urania, Ohrid, Macedonia
1995 Gallery Arthur Danziger, NYC, USA
1995 Museum Yuyu Yang, Taipei, Taiwan
1994 Museum of Contemporary Art, Skopje, Macedonia
1994 Hirol Gallery, Matsuyama, Japan
1993 Gallery One, NYC, USA
1993 Tamya Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
1993 Galerie G., Helsingborg, Sweden
1993 SCAG, Copenhagen, Denmark
1991 Royal Ginza Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990 Timsit International Galleries, San Juan, Puerto Rico
1990 Robinsons Gallery, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1989 Galerie Corinne Timsit, Paris, France
1989 Gummesons Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1989 Catherine van Notten Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
1988 Warner Gallery, LA, USA
1988 I.A.C. Fine Art, Beverly Hills, LA, USA
1988 Schloss Gallery, Tirol, Austria
1988 Printemps Gallery, Mastuyama, Japan
1987 Paris Gallery, Yokohama, Japan
1987 Melys Gallery, NYC, USA
1986 Galerie Messara, Paris, France
1984 Hotel Presidente, Acapulco, Mexico
Group exhibitions
2015 Ningbo Museum, China
2014 Mouche Gallery, LA, USA
2003 DARC, Roma, Italy
2003 UNESCO, Paris, France
2000 Museum Jan van der Togt, Netherlands
1999 Fondation Epicur, Madrid, Spain
1997 Riverside Studios, London, UK
1996 Yayoyi Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
1993 Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
1992 Art Miami, Florida, USA
1991 Tokyo Art Expo, Tokyo, Japan
1989 Museum of Modern Art, Liege, Belgium
1986 Espace Delpha Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Public Collections
Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
National Gallery, Skopje, Republic of Northern Macedonia
Contemporary Art Museum, Skopje, Republic of Northern Macedonia
Danubiana Meulensteen Art Museum, Bratislava, Slovakia
Ningbo Museum, Ningbo, Zhejiang Province, China
Filmography
2021 Before and After, HD, 56 min
2012 Steps, HD, 15 min
2011 Two Times, HD, 44 min
2008 Water and Fire, HD, 59 min
2007 Dogs and Trains, HD, 34 min
2004 Debbie Wilson and Planetarium, 16mm, 35 min
2002 Dogona, 16mm, 26 min
1998 Planetarium, 35mm, 57 min
1998 L’Art de Kiro Urdin, 16 mm, 20 min
1994 I love you, Iban, 16mm, 25 min
1978 Pishta, 35mm, 12 min