Mosaic, painting exhibit opens in History Museum

TIRANA, Oct. 19 – Thirty-two mosaics and paintings by Albanian artists Eduard and Albana Sinaj will be on display at the National Museum of History from October 20 to 23.
Materials used are multi-color marble of high quality from all over the world, but the artists’ most favorite material is Venetian glass stones (Orsoni).
“Thanks to Eduard Sinaj’passionate artistic work the mosaic embellishes again the sacred architectures of our churches. The mosaic art, as no other art, has the power to evoke the presence of the “uncreated light” in the sacred places, redefining the spaces and covering them with infinite chromatic variations. After two decades of patient artistic and artisan practice Eduard Sinaj has improved the mastery of this language, sweeping happily from the canonical modules of the Byzantine Art to them more flexible of the Occidental Sacred Art,” writes Father Flavio Cavallini.
Mustafa Arapi, an Albanian painter, restorer and researcher of Byzantine art, describes Sinaj’s art as, “The mosaics of this atelier are distinguished, first of all, for their high artistic level reached thanks to the mastery of their author, but also thanks to the precious stones used, which have an excellent structural quality and often percentage of gold and silver.” “He knows very well and realizes accurately the ancient works, those of Renaissance art, of the Middle Ages, of the Byzantine period and more, religious and laic works of art.”