Onufri visual arts competition ready to kick off

TIRANA, Dec. 20 – With few days to go before the 19th edition of the Onufri visual arts competition kicks off, organizers have not made public details about this year’s event except for its curator. The 2012 Onufri exhibition will open on December 24 at the National Arts Gallery in Tirana. Italy’s Daniele Capra has been selected as the curator of this year’s Onufri international visual arts competition, the National Art Gallery says. A curator, art critic and journalist, Capra, 36, has curated over 50 shows in Italy, France, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel.
Last year’s “The Painting of Modern Life’ Onufri topic was named after Charles Baudelaire’s essay published in 1863 in Paris. The annual exhibition is named after Onufri, Albania’s 16th century most important icon painter whose works are on display at the iconographic museum in the southern town of Berat, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2008. In many of its previous editions, Onufri has been held as international exhibition bringing together artists from all over the world.