TIRANA, Oct. 11- The National History Museum will be hosting a personal exhibition from artist Pashk Pervathi, titled ‘’Differently.’’ The title comes out of the unique nature of the displayed paintings for the public, which will be 46 portraits and 21 nudes.
The whole of the artistic material is produced in contact with the model and Pervathi’s artistic zeal for preserving his artistic identity is discerned in his dynamic, decorative work painted with wide brushes. The models for his paintings are mostly Roma, an affection of the artists since youth.
The portraits are dismantled in their character, with the painting in nature, the air and the plastic of the models. For instance the painting ‘’Islam Shabani’’ is one the embodiment of character and form dismantle through a colored and expressive compressed brushstroke. The painter seems to be seeking the divine beauty of the woman through a pictorial game of colors.
The main aim of the artist for this exhibition have been the nudes, on which he has worked for the past two years. The nudes are fully naked and half naked figures. The compositional choices regarding lighting are either natural or artificial. Through the nudes, he wanted to express his sensual feminine side, and also the beauty of bodily shapes using his personal artistic language depicted in the scenery.
‘’Colors, contrasts, shadows, amazing scenery and modeled shapes and volumes through simple stoked tones, lined with confidence. Using a simplified scope of colors, he [Pervathi] exposes a personal vestige in portraying a realistic nature, but he also filters its essence through a new aesthetic code for the decorative painting, in the historiography of Albanian visual arts,’’ said researcher Oltsen Gripshi for Pervathi.
According to Gripshi, Pervathi has successfully managed to create his individual artistic language devoid of any traces of Realistic Socialism which are visible in most Albanian contemporary art. That is because the artistic calls nature as his ultimate muse and autumn as its ultimate seduction to artistic inquiry. He doesn’t look for meaning and hidden messages, but for decorative artistic expression, emotions and reality.
‘’Using artistic tools, I always try that my work to speak for itself in the language of beauty and to give the artlover a little serenity and enthusiasm,’’ said Pervathi.
The exhibition will remain open until October 20 at the National History Museum in Tirana.
