“Looking at Korini’s latest works we encounter, or better, reencounter abstract painting. It is a complex painting that we need to deconstruct in order to distinguish its main features and understand it better,” says Alban Hajdinaj, curator and researcher at the National Gallery
TIRANA, Feb. 18 – Lines or blocks painted convincingly and often with strong visible colours, drawings and structures that are more precise and form geometrically shaped figures are some of the highlights of the first solo exhibition contemporary artist Genti Korini is showcasing at the National Art Gallery in Tirana. Called “Ephemeral structures” the exhibition features some of the best abstract works Korini has created in the past couple of years.
“Looking at Korini’s latest works we encounter, or better, reencounter abstract painting. It is a complex painting that we need to deconstruct in order to distinguish its main features and understand it better,” says Alban Hajdinaj, curator and researcher at the National Gallery.
“There often appears a geometric type of structure that takes form and coexists with the abstract subject matter. Lines or blocks painted convincingly, and often with strong visible colours, create spaces and angles, which seem to remind us of something. They attempt to take us somewhere, toward a volume, or a certain perspective, but they never quite get there. It seems as if the artist started with a clear idea of building something, perhaps a structure, a motive or an object, but changed his mind along the process and left it unfinished. In other works, we find drawings and structures that are more precise and form geometrically shaped figures, with no clear function ascribed to them. In fact, they destroy rather than build a conclusion about the composition and the images that it represents,” says Hajdini.
Korini, 34, is a participant in many Onufri visual art competition and solo and collective exhibitions in Albania and abroad. He studied painting at the “Ioan Andreescu” Art Academy in Romania and graphic design at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana from 1997 to 2002.
Genti Korini’s “Abstract” exhibition will be open at the National Art Gallery in Tirana from February 21 to March 23.
