Emil Shulajkovski
Emil Sulajkovski’s paintings bear witness to an agitated, longing nature, whose ultimate goal is beauty – beauty against (and in spite of) the grayness, ugliness, banality, andcageyness of our modern, loud, chaotic life.
From his personal (archetypal) secrets, burst these strange, colored notations of an imaginative autobiography . . . They are images from an inner earth . . .
From “Embraced by the Imaginary Landscape” by Elizabeta Sheleva
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Color plays a dominant role in the works of Emil Sulajkovski. He directs us to a world of fantasy, to kaleidoscopic landscapes and iridescent stories . . .
Confidently, he conducts the action of the painting: the arrays of dynamic impulses, the interchanges of light and dark, the tanglings of the spectrum. The associations are as alluring as imagination itself.
From “Painting is Born with Color” by Dora Andova Foteva
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Born in 1969 in Skopje, Macedonia, Emil Sulajkovski completed both undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the Skopje Faculty of Fine Arts. He has participated in over seventy group shows and the following solo exhibitions:
1995 – Cultural Information Center (KIC) – Skopje (Macedonia)
1998 – Art Gallery at the Lek Business Center – Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Cultural Information Center (KIC) – Skopje (Macedonia)
Ohrid Museum, Robev’s House – Ohrid (Macedonia)
Singidunum Gallery – Belgrade (Serbia)
2000 – Kumanovo Art Gallery – Kumanovo (Macedonia)
Bitola Art Gallery – Bitola (Macedonia)
2001 – Skopje Fair – Skopje (Macedonia)
Cultural Information Center (KIC) – Skopje (Macedonia)
2002 – City Gallery – Nurnberg (Germany)
2004 – Cultural Center of Nish – Nish (Serbia)
2005 – Cultural Information Center (KIC) – Skopje (Macedonia)
2007 – Center for Contemporary Art – Podgorica (Montenegro)
Cultural Information Center (KIC) – Skopje (Macedonia)
2009 – PAF Gallery – Siler City, North Carolina (USA)
Asolare Gallery – Lexington, North Carolina (USA)
2011 – Cultural Information Center (KIC) – Skopje (Macedonia)
– Kumanovo Art Gallery – Kumanovo (Macedonia)
– Tetovo Art Gallery – Tetovo (Macedonia)
– GRAL Gallery – Skopje (Macedonia)
His work is represented in private and public collections in Macedonia, Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Greece, Albania, Bulgaria, Italy, the Vatican, France, Germany, Spain, Portugal, England, Ireland, Poland, Czech Republic, Finland, Switzerland, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Norway, Russia, Turkey, USA, Canada, China, Singapore, Japan, and Australia.
