A solo exhibition with works from Albanian artist Shkà«lqim Kokonozi will be available starting Thursday, on the 21st of December, at GALERIAKALO. The contemporary artworks will be available at the gallery until the 21st of January, 2018.
Kokonozi’s abstract artwork transmits a different dimension, one of a 63-year-old painter who continues to paint with love and loyalty about reality. Kokonozi also communicates his art and ideas by capturing interesting moments of everyday life, like the paths during a rainy day, or the sunset in a clear or cloudy sky.
As described by gallery representatives, Kokonozi is a modest painter, but one who has great potential in capturing and describing the inner world of people through their portraits, which are sometimes abstract but nonetheless real. On portrait characteristic noticeable in most of the artist’s work is the sadness in the faces he paints.
This is because Kokonozi believes that life in Albania is difficult, with a transitional period that lasted longer than anyone expected. Thus, his brush dictates the emotions of the faces he paints and cannot allow him to paint feelings that society is not transmitting yet within him.
“We have collected a considerable number of artworks by Kokonozi and thought it is time to show them to the public. Some of them have been exhibited in group exhibitions organized by GALERIAKALO but several works, abstract and landscapes are being displayed for the first time,” a post by the gallery on Facebook read.
