Robert Gligorov

An advocate of shock art, Robert Gligorov utilizes disturbing imagery and sounds to provoke, upset, and challenge his viewers. The Macedonian artist works across mediums, from video and photography to painting and installation, and no subject is off-limits. Gligorov takes inspiration from various sources, from comics and film to art historical artists like Henri Matisse and Francis Bacon. Early works show Gligorov’s fascination with the body and its transformations. In Insomnia fatale (1998), a Cibachrome photograph printed on aluminum and plexiglass, blood pours from the open mouth of a genderless, all-white figure posed against a white background. Equally disquieting, XXX-Ray pistola (1996) takes on the appearance of an X-ray showing a pistol being held to a pleading figure’s mouth. His current work focuses on social and political issues.