TIRANA, April 4 – Double Feature #9 will bring together the audio-visual work of Italian artist Gabriele Rendina Cattani and Albanian artist Ilir Lluka from April 21 until June 2.
Both artists are primarily composers of contemporary electronic music, for “whom dealing with sound is a way to explore the limits of music in connections with image, language, space and perception.”
Their audio-visual tracks are born using field records and reality-based elements, but they’re experimental and at times abstract too, while aiming to challenge and change the viewers’ reality perception and comprehension.
Double Feature #9 will be hosted at the Tirana Art Lab, which brings the event in cooperation with the Italian Culture Institute Tirana. The exhibition, which will be open Wednesday to Saturday from 4-8pm, is curated by Adela Demetja.
About the artists
Gabriele Rendina Cattani, born in Rome, in 1990, is an Italian artist who predominantly makes soundtracks: immersive computer generated compositions focused on limits and boundaries of a digital sound environment, and how it could influence our memory and our surrounding comprehension. Cattani, studied from 2011 to 2016 Music Composition at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia Rome and at Institute for Music Research, Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado Milano, Italy. He holds a double Master in Fine Arts and Music Theory from Ecole Nationale des Arts Decoratifs and E.H.E.S.S. Paris, France.
Ilir Lluka, born in Tirana, in 1984, is an audiovisual artist and electronic music composer from Tirana, Albania, active in the field of drone, experimental music. While his academic studies were developed outside of arts (majored in political sciences and international relations at University “Nostra Signora Del Buon Consiglio” in Tirana), Lluka studied on his own the techniques of sound design and synthesis in their academic and practical level. He is also author of several software synthesizers, some of which are available for public use.
