By ervin lisaku
TIRANA, June 8 – Dozens of artists including painters, sculptors and graphic designers will open on Saturday, June 12, a joint exhibition at the premises of the National Museum of History in Tirana. The SpringArt exhibition supported by the Swiss cultural programme in Western Balkans and the Ministry of Culture brings together artists of different generations, schools and art movements, organizers said.
Thirty-eight years after the first SpringArt exhibition which is remembered as manifestation of modern art developments, this 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 features 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.
