National Art Gallery to showcase abstract works exhibit

TIRANA, Feb. 14 – “Abstract” by Genti Korini will be the new exhibition at the National Gallery of Arts after the closing of the 19th edition of the Onufri visual arts competition. This is the artist’s first solo show in the gallery and brings together an interesting selection of his abstract paintings.
Looking through Korini’s latest works, we encounter or reencounter abstract painting – a complex painting that we need to disassemble in order to distinguish its main features and understand it better. 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 and seem to remind us of something. It appears as if these shapes, sometimes precise and other times fluid, fracture the composition. They attempt to take us somewhere, towards a volume, or a certain perspective, but they never quite get there. It seems as if the author had 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, organizers say.
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.
The exhibition is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, which includes an essay by curator and writer at the NGA, Alban Hajdinaj.
Genti Korini’s “Abstract” exhibition will be open at the National Art Gallery in Tirana from February 21 to March 23.