Book of Drawings is a lavishly illustrated, 240 page, soft-cover volume, with a size of 9”x11”, in an edition of 220 copies. It was published in conjunction with Talevski’s 2021 “Back and Forth: The Space in Between” exhibition at The Print Center in Philadelphia. This book, both experimental and documentary, operates as both a guide and road map to provide context as well as generate new associations for the exhibition. It features texts by Ksenia Nouril, the Jensen Bryan Curator at The Print Center, Sandra Ristovska, Assistant Professor in Media Studies at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Katica Kulavkova, scholar and professor in Philology, Ss. Cyril and Methodius University, Skopje, Macedonia, and as well as an artist interview with Kevin Platt, Edmund J., and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor in the Humanities, at the Department of Russian and East European Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, and collaborative work executed with Macedonian-born- Shanghai-based musician-composer Vasko Dukovski.
Central to this project are the two collections of drawings featured in this book. One is a series of Talevski’s charcoal drawings (2015 to the present) that respond to myriad experiences, instances, phenomena, events, and sites encountered during Talevski’s travels between Philadelphia and Bitola, the United States and Macedonia. The other is a group of 235 lost drawings by the artist-tailor Marko Cepenkov who lived from the early nineteenth to the early twentieth century in what was then known as the Ottoman Empire.
This volume was printed at Opero, Verona, Italy.
