‘Personal’, Helidon Haliti’s new exhibit

TIRANA, August 2 – ‘Personal’ will be the newest and first exhibition by Albanian painter at the National Arts Gallery in Tirana. Haliti, 44, will feature 18 artworks in the exhibition which opens in mid-August.
“I have been working on this exhibition for three years to concentrate on an artwork I have been thinking of almost all of my life. The exhibition of 18 works, is a mix of my latest exhibit at the Mezuraj museum with the present. Self-closure, the neccessary space needed to gain time and the next concern, a return to my childhood, inevitable reminiscences, current affairs, rancour, tabus, events on our planet, global warming, family, sarcasm, transparency, love for art and the dilemma to desert as many times as it is not under my control, hatred, revenge, existence and survival, are my heroes. The house is my prison and my nest, built not to be eternal. I am amazed by the fact that all children draw their home in the same way with open windows, I do the same thing, but now aware,” says Haliti.
The exhibition which comes at the peak of tourist season when most people leave Tirana will run from August 16 to September 10.
Haliti’s exhibition comes after a 40-day display of more than a hundred works by some of the most renowned British contemporary artists will be displayed to the Albanian public for two months at the National Arts Gallery in Tirana. The “Made in Britain” exhibition brings to Albania 111 artworks including paintings, sculptures, graphs, photographs, installations, part of the British Council collection, belonging to 1980-2010 period.
Heldon Haliti belongs to the new generation of contemporary Albanian students that are graduated during nineties in the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana. He has been present always in numerous exhibitions in Albania and abroad, especially in Greece, where he actually lives and creates. Haliti realizes his works in different genres and techniques. The drama of emigration and the spiritual distemper he is still suffering as an emigrant are reflected in several pictorial cycles, such as “The Legs”, “The pigeon”, “The cage”, “Eva and Adam”, etc.
The artist is similar to the river that cannot find rest but continues to flow in search of the sea Ż but differently from the river that streams from the height towards the down, the artist overflows towards the peaks; he doesn’t descend, but climbs toward the height of the human spirit, heart and mind, extending himself all over the cosmos and all over the human micro cosmos. The artist accepts neither limits, nor rest; he occupies always new lands Ż he is always in movement and searching Š