An exhibition by Italy’s Bruno Muzzolini, and Albania’s Anri Sala, Artan Shabani, Fani Zguro
TIRANA, Nov. 23 – Starting from Friday, Nov. 25 the Promenade Gallery, in the southern coastal city of Vlora, will be featuring “Missing Landscape”, a group show with the participation of Bruno Muzzolini, Anri Sala, Artan Shabani and Fani Zguro. Bruno Muzzolini in the video “Anema e Core” (2008) represents the nucleus of this exploration. Set in a volcanic area of Iceland, the video features the volcanologist Gudmundur Eggertsson, against a desolate landscape of black rock and wind singing Anema e Core, an icon of the canzone napoletana which has always been one of the great passions of his energetic Northern character. Anri Sala in the video “Missing Landscape” (2001) represents an action like the theatre convention where the actor moves from the kitchen to the waiting room through the trapdoor, even though there are no walls or visible boundaries between the rooms in the scene. The actor considers the entrances to the different spaces. Each time the children enter the playground through the goals, considering a space in a space where there are no walls. They are unconsciously cutting the playground off the world surrounded by the mountains. They are playing the game and the play! Artan Shabani in the photography “Missing Landscape” (2009) represents the fields of gold, a landscape burned from the human regeneration process. A metaphor of our territory in continues change. The old school we miss under the laboratory of production and self destruction. The map of our time under the urbanism ambition of tomorrow. Fani Zguro in the video “U Turn” (2006) represents a remake sports between the artist and the film’s sole protagonist sharing the same goddamned dialogue lines, even before Columbus’ arrival. “U Turn” operates and recycles analogous stories and places. The video tries all along to reach the fulcrum of history, that history continuously repeating over the same interview or dialogue as in that fucking afternoon, always out there waiting for us.
Bruno Muzzolini was born in 1964 in Brescia. Lives and works in Milan and Brescia. He study at Accademia delle Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, and from 2003 he is professor of digital video at the same academy. He works on video and photography. At 2008 he was the winner of Venice Video ArtFair and also the 3rd Prize at International Onufri Prize. He has exhibited at 54th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia, Listasafni ASI Reykjavik, Valenzuela and Klenner Gallery Bogota, Videoart Yearbook Bologna, The Mercahandise Mart Chicago, The National Gallery of Arts Tirana, The National Gallery of Arts Prishtina, Museo de Arte Moderna Medellin, Fabio Paris Gallery Brescia, The Living Art Museum Reykjavik, San Jer
