Under Pressure
Abstract expressionism is no longer cutting-edge art in most places, but in one country it is enjoying a massive popular revival: Macedonia. The artists are at work day and night in the capital, Skopje, splattering public buildings and statues with every colour in the rainbow in a style clearly inspired by Jackson Pollock. The Macedonian artists can't get as close to their work as Pollock (who put his canvases on the floor and dripped or splattered paint on them), because they are separated from their art-works by lines of grim-faced policemen. But they have solved that problem by using big slingshots to lob paint-filled balloons over the cops' heads onto the statues and buildings.
Gwynne Dyer
Published 13.06.16, 12:00 AM