About his Art

Sergej Andreevski is a painter who discovers the long forgotten secrets of the world in his paintings. Coming from the Demir Hisar plateau where the sun gilds the Plaknenska Mountain, he has brought with him the ancient knowledge of his forefathers, handed down and narrated at night in whisper by the home fire around which the forest ghosts dance like shadows on the wall.

Like the ancient Haruspicis that pictured a square in the sky waiting for the birds to stray into it and to foretell the destiny and reveal the secrets of life and death, that opened the wombs of the animals and pictured a square on the earth to lay the foundations of a new temple where the will of the gods is determined above the steam that comes out of the crack in the rock, Sergej Andreevski sets his painting between the sky and the earth.

In each painting Sergej Andreevski once again opens new passages to the depths where the art is hidden. Reaching it is not an easy task. Behind each cave there is another, deeper one and behind it there is a larger and deeper, isolated world under the surface, an abyss behind each bottom, on the other side of any grounding (Nietzsche). Ahead of you is a long journey to the underground world where the secrets are kept by a dragon never seen by anybody. In order to find the place where the treasure is hidden you must confront many dangers.

Emil Aleksiev, art critic

Sergej's Art is probably the best example of postexpressionism in the region at the end of the 20th century. Originating from Macedonia as the very crossroad of passionate extremes, utmost contrasts and often paradoxical (mis)understandings, his art follows the logic of the native milieu. Therefore it pours out straight from the very genes - unavoidable and untamable, explosively unrestrainable and furious.

The way Sergej thinks about painting is the way he feels it. And it is an outstanding struggle between Eros and Thanatos. At one moment it looks like he is making love to the canvas - touching it softly, caressing it, whispering his passionately seductive song to his beloved mistress. And then love turns into hate, into dangerous deadly game where Sergej attacks the canvas so vigorously, so unexpectedly irrational that it seems hi is going to destroy it. That is why his Art is a magnificant spectacle of expression!

Zlatko Teodosievski, art critic