Sixty artists in Spring Art 2011

TIRANA, April 25 – An exhibition featuring 60 Albanian artists is being displayed at the National Museum of History in Tirana. The Spring Art exhibition is the second in a row after its successful display last year. Thirty-eight years after the first SpringArt exhibition which is remembered as manifestation of modern art developments, this second edition of the event brings a collection of paintings and sculptures freed from the limitations of the communist regime but also from current misunderstandings and abuses.
“It is worth stressing that in the case of this new exhibition, the feeling of solidarity and free brotherly competition among artists of different structures, ideas and views, works as not usual in our environment,” said the exhibition’s organizers, considering this an example of the end of exclusion and manipulation practices.
More than 60 artists participate with their works in the exhibition featuring paintings in different techniques such as oil on canvas, landscapes, compositions, portraits, nudes, ceramics as well as wood, bronze, terracotta, marble, stone and plaster sculptures.
The exhibition will run until April 30.
Last year’s exhibition featured some nude painting by Adnan Veseli and Spiro Kristi, a bronze ballet dancer sculpture by Muntaz Dhrami and also a gypsum sculpture of Mother Teresa.