BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
He was born in Ohrid, N. Macedonia, in 1980. He moved to Bucharest, Romania, in 2001 and received a BA in fine arts in 2006 and an MA in graphic arts in 2008 from the University of Arts, Bucharest, Romania.
Blaze's work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions internationally, including in Macedonia, Romania, Germany, Austria, and France. One of the basic characteristics of Sasho Blazes's artwork is the interpretation of the influence of countless pieces of information on people's psyches and vice versa, with a view of the purposeful destruction of individuality.
ARTWORK IN CONTEST
Underwater, 2024
PAINTING - Oil, acrylic, resin on aluminium sheet
68 x 52 x 4 cm
The light of aluminium seeps into the tangle of signs in Underwater by Sasho Blazes, a plate painting as a revealing source. The author’s allusion to underwater depths is rendered by a refined weaving of material and abstract signs. In this liminal context, between imagined and simulated reality, the intimate symbolic nature of the work is grasped.
AWARDS
SPECIAL MENTION OF THE JURY 2024
With the following motivation:
In the work of Macedonian artist Sasho Blazes, the light of aluminium leaks out, subtended and diffused, within an abstract and evocative tangle of chromatic signs that seem to allude to a naturalistic and aquatic world, to an imaginary underwater seabed. The result is a sense of emerging and symbolic expectation, of a revelatory source: intimate, inspired, mysterious and silent.
