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When I was five, I had long blond hair down to my shoulders, a curious eye and a smile that loved the entire world around me! And all things colorful excited me deeply.

Throughout my eight years of primary school, I sensed the surge of a great love towards drawing! To draw everything the eye can – and cannot – see, and yet teem with life! It was a consuming thought that gave me no rest… I watched my mother embroider flowers and birds around them. I was amazed: through the colour I could smell the flowers and hear the song of the colourful birds; that endless, bright and impeccably clean sound that filled my soul with inspiring dreams slowly revealed to me the secrets of the world…

I completed high school education in my city and enrolled at the School of Applied Arts. I chose painting! Five years later, after completing it, I went to Belgrade. I was admitted to the Academy of Fine Arts. I graduated after five years and enrolled at the Academy’s post-graduate studies. I became a member of the former Union of Artists of Yugoslavia. I participated in joint exhibitions, salons and biennales. I travelled across Europe and saw the cultural heritage of art in the famous museums and galleries.

I still had long hair, and my curiosity did nothing but expand. The smile that loved the world became a doubt that kept me drawing and painting, reading and writing; listening to the music of silence deep within my consuming thoughts: who am I, who is this Man I see around me all the time, how is that world out there different from this world within me…

I lived (and still do) burning away and wandering through my thoughts; I suffered and erred, I began and desisted, and then again began only to desist again, I fought (and still do), dismissing fallacies and empty promises. I realized that peace and quiet do not exist in the Act of Creation. Everything is always already a beginning and all beauty is covered with deep secrets. Painting is an exploration, a search for one’s own meanings and truths, which should be recognized by other people as their own.

I have made solo exhibitions in Skopje, Belgrade, Vienna, Rome, Sofia, Istanbul, Kiev and Saint Petersburg! My paintings can be found in private homes and public buildings!

I have received awards and acknowledgements; the highest State prize in the Republic of Macedonia for special contribution in the fields of culture and arts; the highest prize of the Association of Artists of Macedonia, and others. But all that seems part of human Vanity.

A man and a woman once approached me at the market. Upon asking and confirming that I was, indeed, the artist, they said: “When will you exhibit again? We went to your exhibition every day and found it delightful”.

Now I realize what the true prize is! I no longer have long hair. It is now white. My forehead is wrinkled. The look in my eyes, though ever curious, is now dark. I still love the world, though now only as a model of the past and the future.

I know that the past has gone never to return, and the future is unknown. Where past and future meet – in that still point – there my life flows and my painting finds its birth… There, that five-year-old boy with long blond hair down to his shoulders is still alive, well and happy.

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This website presents the oeuvre of Vladimir Georgievski and his artistic response, through painting and writing, to the existential questions about faith, life, death, the role and the essence of man.

It is conceived, established and maintained by his family with the intention to safeguard and show globally Georgievski’s artistic legacy. New content will continuously be added.

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