TIRANA, March 17 – German artist Viola Bittl is showcasing a series of paintings in Tirana as part of an artist-in-residence supported by IFA, Germany’s Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations.
Her exhibition at the Tirana Art Lab center for contemporary art features a series of oil on canvas paintings focusing on memory, remembrance, enriched perceptions, emptiness and the next unknown, says Jean-Christophe Ammann, a Swiss curator and art historian.
He describes Viola Bittl’s oil on canvas paintings and works on paper as the result of a long, intense process that, in images and superimpositions, hides the time that flows into the work. “They are the deduction of all layers and interventions. They sediment memory and remembrance, enriched perceptions, emptiness, the unknown next,” says the Swiss curator.
Viola Bittl, 35, graduated from the Art Academy in Munich. Her works have been shown in solo and group exhibition among others in institutions like Kunsthaus Wiesbaden, Eigen+Art Lab Berlin, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Columbia University New York, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Berlin, basis Frankfurt am Main, Zollamt, Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt/Main.
Her exhibition at the Tirana Art Lab will remain open until March 28.
