Covid Times Project
Man is living energy that can sometimes stay inert, or it can “wake up” in certain circumstances. And what exactly can activate that “force” no one knows, or it might be different for everyone.
I allow myself to tell my little story about how I began my project (500 oil paintings, small format). I began, but I myself don’t know how I began! There, accidentally, without wanting, without thinking, without planning.
One, two, three, and the wheel started moving… like drops falling down from a glass that’s being filled. Further on, the paintings made determine the destiny of the process. Together with the paintings I, too, was born, while the pandemic raged on the outside. Human life was like a bundle of wheat being mercilessly reaped by the pandemic. Even the most cordial people became strangers. The global man began fearing the global shadow of death. Thus, I was closed up in my studio, as a prehistoric man in his dark cave. The only dialogue I had was with the scattered papers, paints, and paintbrushes, and the little pools on the floor warned me of the uncertainty of life. I simply painted, painted, painted so as not to wake the dream dreaming inside of me. And thus it happened.
Kiro Urdin
MATIERES A SUIVRE
by Corinne Timsit
Editor in Chief of ArtPremium Magazine
Kiro traveled all over the world with a canvas of 48 m2, Planetarium, and accomplished the painting inspired by various cultures encountered along his journey, from the most emblematic place to the most eccentric. The film Planetarium, a witness of the epic adventure, inspired the choreographer Debbie Wilson to create a performance.
His transcription from film to painting and painting to film is a transcendence of the visual movement connected to matter and color, to rewrite reality, to re-establish the reference symbols of our everyday life, to propose them lacking in taboo and sectarian references.
The work of Kiro reached a gasp between the breakout of the painting and the testimony of the camera, which tirelessly questions himself on his intrinsic version of the Creation.
Life sits in his work lit up by emotions creating chaos, which facilitates him to fit into the resonance of higher spaces.
ARTWORKS
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Untitled 143
4 500 € -
Untitled 151
4 500 € -
Untitled 101
4 500 € -
Relax
25 000 € -
Untitled 103
4 500 € -
Untitled 104
4 500 € -
Untitled 106
4 500 € -
Untitled 138
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Untitled 128
4 500 € -
Untitled 130
4 500 € -
Untitled 149
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Untitled 145
4 500 € -
Untitled 135
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Untitled 131
4 500 € -
Untitled 136
4 500 € -
Untitled 118
4 500 € -
Untitled 146
4 500 € -
Untitled 150
4 500 € -
Untitled 133
4 500 € -
Circular World
30 000 € -
Rich Matter
60 000 € -
Blue & Red
50 000 € -
At Home
50 000 € -
Memories
25 000 € -
Structure XY
25 000 € -
Figaro
20 000 € -
Female Feeling
60 000 € -
Crystal Pain
25 000 € -
First Life
35 000 €
The Anthology of Kiro Urdin
420 pages – features paintings, drawings, aphorisms, photographies and films (value 250€)
PLANETARISM MOVEMENT
Published by ArtPremium
“One point everywhere,
everything in one point.”


Macedonian – French
Lives & works in Knokke – Belgium
BIOGRAPHY
1945 | Born in Macedonia |
1969 | Obtained a degree from the Faculty of Law at the Belgrade University |
1971-73 | Worked as a journalist |
1972 | Worked as a chief designer for the telecasts “You with us too” and “Contact”, dedicated to the music composed by Beethoven, Verdi, Mozart, Chopin, and Monteverdi |
1974 | Studied at the “Academie des Arts Plastiques” in Paris |
1977 | Obtained a Degree in Film Directing from the ”Academy of Cinema” in Paris |
1982-83 | Painted the portraits of the participants in the renowned “Soirees Poétiques de Struga” series (Neruda, Montale, Orlov, Okai, Guivellic) |
1984 | Worked as an independent painter in different countries: France, USA, Japan, Switzerland, Sweden, Mexico, Belgium, Puerto Rico, Philippines, Taiwan |
1985 | Wrote and published the book “Le dédoublement de la personnalité” |
1987 | Listed in the reference work ”Le Dessin, le Pastel et l’Aquarelle of the contemporary arts”, published by Editions Mayer |
1995 | Represented France at the French Art Festival in Taïpei |
1996 | Illustrated the cover of the book by Jacques Delors “Combats pour l’Europe” |
1997 | Illustrated the cover of the book by Anatoli Karpov “Mes plus belles victoires” |
1997 | Represented the Republic of Macedonia in Thessaloniki – Culture Capital of Europe ’97 |
1995-97 | Traveled around the world and realised Planetarium as a multimedia project which included paintings, films, and photos |
1998-2002 | Wrote 8 books of poetry and aphorisms in French and English |
2003 | Planetarium became a worldwide ballet performance created by the choreographer Debbie Wilson |
2005 | Became a member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences |
2007 | Exhibited at the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences in Skopje and in Budapest |
2008 | Represented Macedonia at the Festival de la Francophonie de Moscou in Russia. |