Robert Gligorov

Orangeface – Self Portrait – 1997

Gligorov’s work attempts to shock the viewer. Each piece tantalizes the imagination, awakening it from a state of lethargy. Confronting a society accustomed to sophisticated and extreme forms of visual communication, Gligorov amplifies the shock value of his work in order to compete with the deluge of images that cloud our visual field.

Robert Gligorov was born in Macedonia (1959), but lives and works in Milan, Italy. He is primarily known for his photographs, which have been widely exhibited in Europe. Gligorov is attuned to the idea of performance and high-impact commercial images; his photographs are always arresting, sometimes shocking, using unexpected combinations of human, animal and vegetable life to explore sexuality and identity.

YANG WANG

Yang Wang was born in 1975 in China, but now lives and works in Paris. He started his career as a dancer with the China People’s Liberation Army Arts Academy. He joined Beijing Modern Dance Assemble in 1997. His connection with Angelin Preljocaj started when he joined the Ballet Preljocaj on 2002

Francis Newton Souza (1924 – 2002), commonly referred to as F. N. Souza, was an Indian artist. He was a founding member of the Progressive Artists’ Group of Bombay, and was the first post-independence Indian artist to achieve high recognition in the West. Souza’s style exhibited both low-life and high energy.                                            Souza was born to Roman Catholic parents of Goan origin in the village of Saligao, Goa. In 1929, after he had moved to Mumbai with his family, he survived an attack of smallpox which left him scarred for life. His grateful mother added Francis to his name, after St Francis Xavier, the patron saint of Goa.