‘Terra Australis’ featured in Tirana

TIRANA, Oct. 2 – Images of Australia were featured to the public in Albania for one week in Genc Mulliqi’s solo exhibition called ‘Terra Australis.’ The exhibition which showcased at the FAB gallery of the Academy of Arts from September 20 to October 1 displayed a body of works (all oil on canvass) based on personal impressions of a particular environment where the intensity of natural light and the diversity in colour becomes a reason for me to go back at the ‘Colour’ theme. This environment is Australia, especially Australian Eastern Cost and Tropical Australia.
“Under the tropical sun with the reflection of the ocean, light filters everything differently and colours have such intensity. Endless spaces of unique ecosystems where the beauty and the danger coexist naturally make Australia very specific in my eyes. It is like that beautiful flower behind which hides a deadly spider. This is the place where the ocean and the desert are close to each other,” says Mulliqi. “Biodiversity of the tropical forest which is the oldest continually surviving rainforest on earth and the Great Barrier Reef which is considered the largest living organism on the planet are endless source of inspiration for everyone, and for me is a true discovery, I’d like to think I felt like the early explorers, hence the title,” he adds.
The works are not based in some concrete image but somehow just products of memory from that particular experience.
Genc Mulliqi’s art can be described as an idea in motion that changes its form and appears through sculpture, painting or photography. Mulliqi was born in 1976 and attended the Academy of Arts in Tirana where he majored in sculpting. In 1999 he received his Master of Arts from the London Wimbledon School of Arts. He has exhibited his work, either individually or in group exhibitions, in the Tirana National Gallery of Arts, Germany, Belgium, Great Britain, Italy and elsewhere.