Tirana Times
TIRANA, July 6 – One month after the opening of the Albanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale, the Albanian exhibition displayed there has attracted a lot of interest drawing thousands of visitors. The Albanian pavilion’s commissioner Parid Teferici says this year’s participation is proving a success.
“This year’s participation exceeded our best expectations. I think that the Albanian pavilion attracted the interest of the experts of the field, critics, different artists and I am satisfied with the way they were welcomed,” Teferici told reporters.
He said that the Albanian art achieved its purpose in Venice, that of being identified.
“We have been integrated in many fields, but in art, we are still far away. Our main purpose was to bring to the surface what really happens in the scene of the Albanian art,” said Teferici.
Anila Rubiku, Orion Shima, Gentian Shkurti, Eltjon Valle and Driant Zeneli are the five Albanian artists that were selected by Italian curator Riccardo Caldura
Albania’s Geopathies exhibition condenses the idea of identifying a close relationship between the work of art and the geographical, historical and social context. “The works have been conceived as privileged dots of relief to catch aspects from another reality other than the every-day one,” organizers say in a statement.
The Venice Biennale will remain open until November 27. The event is one of the most important of international contemporary art and is visited by nearly 700,000 people.
“A history out of context”
TIRANA, July 7 – Five Albanian and foreign artists have opened a collective exhibition in the southern coastal city of Vlora. The exhibition at the Promenade gallery in Vlora’s central boulevard features works by foreign artists Manuele Cerutti, Ian Tweedy, Azad Nanakeli and Albania’s Artan Shabani and Enkelejd Zonja.
The exhibition called “A History out of Context” will remain open until July 20.
Azad Nanakeli, who is representing Iraq at the Venice Biennale, is the special guest of this exhibition. His film work and a sculptural installation explore the Iraqi pavilion’s water theme in the Venice Biennale.
