Xhovalin Delia was given the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award for distinguished merits in art, design and culture for his Big Bang multimedia project featuring painting, installation and video art
TIRANA, Dec. 11 – Albanian born, Italy-based artist Xhovalin Delia has been announced the winner of the 9th Florence Biennale bringing together 450 artists from all over the world. Delia was given the “Lorenzo il Magnifico” Award for distinguished merits in art, design and culture for his Big Bang multimedia project featuring painting, installation and video art.
Delia, 54, who is painter, writer and film maker, was awarded the prize for his project focusing on the concept of order, relationship and harmony.
Delia describes his Big Bang project as “an approach and interpretation of the structure of the micro and macro world in a class aesthetic ‘dimension’ or better the dimension of man, sometimes called ‘Art.'”
Founded in 1997 by Pasquale and Piero Celona, the ninth edition of the Florence Biennale was themed “Ethics: DNA of Art’
As suggested by the theme ‘Ethics: DNA of Art’, the mission of the Florence Biennale is to stir some reflection and critical thinking about the relationship between art and ethics, and the role of the arts in the new millennium. “Moving from a notion of art as unrelated to ethics and aesthetics towards a neo-Humanistic vision, in which creativity is the driving force of any system of knowledge. Accordingly, new frontiers will be explored in a design to reinterpret the fundamental values of Humanism, and thus re-establish the key role of artistic culture in the global realities of the present.”
Critics describe Delia’s art as oriented towards Post-Modernism, and knowing no bounds. “In fact, the very diversity that “divides” people and the universal values that united them are the essence of his creativity, which he transmits through painting, installation, video, performance, film, and literature.” “God Bless America” is his second literary work, after his novel “Venus”, published in 2005.
