‘Painting Greece and Albania’

TIRANA, March 28 – “Painting Greece and Albania” an exhibition by Athens-based Albanian painter Bujar (Babis) Arizi is showcasing at the National Museum of History in Tirana as part of Greek cultural spring events in Tirana.
Bujar Babis Arizi’s large scale oil on canvas paintings explore movement, plasticity, volume and materiality with virtuous depth and soaring coloration. Having suffered under a Communist regime during his creative maturation, Arizi’s thick impasto and lively approach to hue and form were a force sometimes hindered by the risk of government censure and imprisonment. They show themselves all the more powerfully now that they are free.
Bujar Babis Arizi is a professional painter who was born in Tirana, Albania. He has participated in a number of important exhibitions throughout Europe and the United States. Since the early 1990s he has been living in Greece.
“I prefer the atmosphere of light, the plasticity of volume, color’s abstraction, but not this of the form .. All these, lying on a canvas, I translate them into emotion. This is my motivation ..” says Arizi.