TIRANA, Oct. 8- Italian artist Eugenio Tibaldi moved in a Napolitan neighborhood in 2000s to start working on an informality map, and beat fear by living in an illegal house where criminal activities operated. He made an artistic installation and documentary which he has shown it around Europe, and showed in a workshop at the University of Arts in Tirana and Harabel.
This workshop, Tibaldi wants it to be a next step to a bigger joint project regarding informal movement, which will be exhibited in 2019.
What features the Italian cities now possess, contrasting with the old ones. What has happened with informal intrusion and how does the individual adapt by breaking construction and architectural laws for the sake of survival. A philosophically invoking theme which brings itself by a strong investigative style, and with a unique artistic methodology.
His work has been exhibited in public and private Italian institutions, and also around Europe. He has worked in Cairo, Istanbul, Rome, Thessaloniki, Berlin, Verona, Bucuresti, Torino, Karakas, and Brussels.
‘’My memories work better through images rather than dates. The image which has haunted me about the changes in Balkans after the year 1989 is undoubtedly the disembarkation of ship ‘Vlora’ in Bari on 1991. 30 years are enough to see the first reflections from the happenstances developed under the new political and societal orders, and Tirana represents a potential thermometer upon which it can be rationalized. Through the circumstances we will be walking in specific areas of the city looking for details, the aesthetic traces that will show us this change and development through years,’’ said Tibaldi.
His project involves looking at different sights, institutional and habitual, to find the changes through the aesthetics, which will allow a better rationalization of the age we live in. Along with his own bringing, he requires that Albanian artists, intellectuals, philosophers also contribute and bring a bigger, clearer picture on the changes that have taken place due time.
