For “Adulterio” and the awarded mosaics by Misho Stojanovski

Ravenna is the mosaic capital of the world. Accordingly, the only art academy in Italy that educates mosaic specialists is in this city, with eight buildings protected as UNESCO World Heritage Sites.

The student of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Ravenna, Misho Stojanovski, seems to have recently “subscribed” to mosaic awards

Misho Stojanovski’s mosaics are created in an atmosphere as if organized for the purpose.

Little Ravenna has a truly spectacular historical and cultural heritage, crowned by eight UNESCO World Heritage Sites – top examples of early Christian and Byzantine architecture adorned with monumental mosaics.

Ravenna was the capital of the Western Roman Empire (402-476), then of the Ostrogothic Kingdom (493-540), until 540, when the great military commander of the Byzantine Emperor Justinian I, Belisarius, did not return it to the Byzantine Empire, after which it became the center of the Byzantine (Ravenna) Exarchate.

In this, we will call it the Byzantine historical section (especially in the 5-6th centuries); the foundations of Ravenna as the world capital of mosaics were laid – its trademark with which the city authorities brand it today.

              Mosaic from old Ravenna, San Vitale...                                ...and new Ravenna mosaic

The unique aura that the aforementioned circumstances give to the city has fascinated many eminent artists: Dante Alighieri completed his “Divine Comedy” in Ravenna, and there is his tomb; Byron, the leader of Romanticism, lived here from 1819 to 1821 and worked on his poem “Don Juan”, and the city is also celebrated in poems by Oscar Wilde, Herman Hesse, T. S. Eliot, Alexander Bloch.

Clearly, it is difficult to be a mosaicist in Ravenna, let alone to distinguish oneself as one.

Nevertheless, Misho Stojanovski, with his work “Senza Speranza“ (Without Hope), won the mosaic competition “Illustration of Comedy: Inferno“ in November (2021), announced on the occasion of the 700th anniversary of Dante Alighieri’s death.

And in March (2022), with the mosaic “Conflictus” (Conflict), he again won a prize: for the work of art with the best contemporary research approach, at the 19th edition of the Art Fair in Forlì, Italy (Vernice Art Fair). The award secured a special booth at the next edition of the fair, reserved for his works.

                            „Senza Speranza“                                            In front of “Conflictus”, with the director                                                                                                                                          Paola Babini

Stojanovski’s frequent appearance on the radar of the cultural public there led to an invitation for a solo exhibition in Milan, to be staged this summer.
The mosaic “Adulterio” (Adultery) will be part of the exhibition, with which the artist peers deep beneath the surface of today’s civilization.