TIRANA, April 26 – Albanian artist Eljan Tanini has opened a special exhibition tracing his childhood through random drawings which he calls silent stains.
“When I was 5 years old I learned how to draw but not from people, but from some images they were looking at me. The first was a tiger, which the plasterer of the neighborhood, Paçoja, created it unknowingly at my building’s stairway. Those days of plastering at the third floor of the entrance, make me say to Paço that she, had created a tiger with black soil! Nobody will understand us, neither me nor the tiger image,” says the author.
“One day, the image I had drawn in mind with some merit of happiness that the discovery I had made, would create the imagination of continuity: yet by photographs. We see them everywhere. These random drawings, with colors of the places, where we are,” he adds.
The Silent Stains speaks for themselves. Maybe they are the spirits from old times turned into images.”
The exhibition which has opened at the former Yugoslav embassy in Tirana in the Durresi street will remain open until April 2.
Tanini who studied visual arts in Tirana, is also an author, active journalist and environmentalist.
