TIRANA, Sept. 1 – Three Italian and British artists will be showcased in the northern Albanian city of Shkoder in a collective contemporary art exhibition.
Italy’s Pierpaolo Campanini and Giovanni De Lazzari and Northern Ireland artist Willie Doherty will be featuring video, painting and etchings.
“What all of them have in common is an attentive and sensitive view in exploring the every-day and the natural in the search for secret areas, unclear spaces and hidden memories,” says the Italian Institute of Culture which is organizing the event.
The exhibition called Memorandum is a project by Adrian Paci, an internationally renowned contemporary artist who represented Albania in the 2014 Venice Biennale. It will also inaugurate the Art House gallery in Shkodra, where Paci grew up as an artist, remaining open to the public from September 13 to 19.
“Viewing the works of these three artists, it seems like nature is permeated by a story which has left its marks and we do not assist in it, but later when everything seems quiet and full of memories. Sometimes the marks seem like wounds, sometimes like strange constructions,” organizers say.
Northern Ireland’s Willie Doherty, 56, has been a pioneering figure in contemporary art film and photography since the 1980s.
Giovanni De Lazzari, 38, and Pierpaolo Campanini, 51, both live and work in Italy and have participated in dozens of international exhibitions.
