( 1015 letture) - On June 11, 2010, at 8:00 p.m. The Promenade Gallery presents the joint exhibition, “Who Is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Green,” with the work of Alban Muja, Adrian Paci, Anri Sala, Artan Shabani, Driant Zeneli and Fani Zguro.
This exhibition consists of the work of some of those Albanian artists who are now working in an international context. The title of this exhibit is based on the title of one of the pieces presented, namely Anri Sala’s short video, “Who Is Afraid of Red, Yellow and Green” (2008). In this video, the Albanian artist presents an unusual situation by focusing on a static plane, as spiders build their webs over a stoplight, without fearing the tension that the latter create.
Alban Muja, an artist working in Kosovo, presents the photograph, “Catch Me” which he completed during his residency in Santa Fe Institution, in 2008, a photo which portrays the artist running through the desert. The picture shows the moment in which the artist crosses the U.S.-Mexican border. Beyond the superficial impressions of a frivolous act, this carries in it a whole series of paradoxes and cultural peculiarities, as well as the big question about what freedom means in our time. For the Mexicans this free movement across the border is as restricted and controlled as it is for Alban Muja’s compatriots in Kosovo. In these paradoxes, the artist finds the true analogues of his own identity around the world and how to overcome them.
Adrian Paci, with his video “Nobody is Romantic Anymore,” continues a search which he has started much earlier on the relationship between art and the positioning of the artist. The central object of Paci’s video is a real person, his friend, painter Ilir Zefi, who continues to cultivate a romantic idea on the role of the artist as well as art production. However, the capacity for irony, auto-irony and melancholy, combined with a critical sense, do not allow the protagonist of the video to become pathetic.
Artan Shabani, presents two photographs, “The Singing Lions,” whose focus is the dialectics between the influence and consumption of architecture on/by human beings. The music within nature, like frame of history. And yet, ephemeral signifier for the time, already evicted from naturemonument of the dethroned moment, memory’s rust on history. Lacking the shape of any natural object, the memory lives like a parasite within theevoking sound and the sound retransfers within nature thehistory (the past) along with contingent projects of objects, the missing bodies (or which are not the same)
Driant Zeneli, presents the video,''The Dream Of Icarus Was to Make a Cloud''. An action – the creation of a small cloud, something that happens millions of times on earth – is almost impossible without sophisticated aeronautical equipment. However,Zeneli considers it fundamental to try, to share with the spectator adream similar to that of Icarus. Boarded on a paraglider, the artist creates a cirrus cloud that lastsa few seconds before dissolving with the mountain wind. At that point, the paraglider is already off-camera and no traces remain of the artist and the utopia he wished to give us.
Fani Zguro, presents his photograph “To Divide it,” which highlights the past, for example, how adolescents, because they had no money would transform a cigarette into a ruler so as to equally divide it amongst themselves.
The exhibition “Who Is Afraid of Red Yellow and Green” will be open to the public until September 14, 2010 at the Promenade Gallery, Bulevardi Skele Uji I Ftohte, 9401,Vlorë.
WHO IS AFRAID OF RED YELLOW AND GREEN ?
ALBAN MUJA, ADRIAN PACI, ANRI SALA, ARTAN SHABANI, DRIANT ZENELI, FANI ZGURO
The Promenade Gallery, Vlorë Albania
11.07.10 – 14.09.2010
THE PROMENADE GALLERY
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