TIRANA, Feb. 5 – Eighteen Albanian artists and authors, most of whom based in Italy, are participating in a travelling exhibition as part of the sixth edition of the international biennial of works of art on paper which has been inaugurated in Turin and will also travel to Tirana and Rome.
A novel written by Fatos Lubonja on cigarette paper during his imprisonment under communism, and several artworks by contemporary artists such as Ardian Isufi, Helidon Haliti and Alket Nallbani represent Albania in this exhibition which will initially be displayed at the National University Library of Turin from Feb. 5 to March 8 before travelling to Tirana at the National Museum of History.
Promoted by the National Institute of Contemporary Art in Italy, this sixth edition of the Biennale is curated by Italy’s Anselmo Villata and Albania’s Alfred Milot Mirashi.
“This is an exhibition which in its recurrence can be called a historical monument – for those who can read – and opposes the attempts of limitations, levelling, generalizations and where each artist is unique as such, with all their values, an individual who with their personal contribution to society, actually recovers the role they deserve as promoter and supporter of culture and aesthetics,” organizers say.
