Albania: SIDI KANANI

21/05/2007

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Sidi Kanani
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The paintings show the post-industrialist Albanian urban spaces , the connecting points among temporary solitude, vast spaces, vague glittering, the feeling of nostalgia and at the same time the separation from present time and something that is gone but that is still there.They offer images from reality that we usually live in a passive way because they have always been there, but that are still matter concerning us (physically and psychologically) now and then, in the urban home town.

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albaniavisualart said...: Education
1997 - 2001 University of Tirana, Academy of Arts

Work experience

Since 2002 Fine Arts Teacher, Shkoder
2004 Personal Exhibition in Shkoder
2005 Participant at the Videoart Exhibition in Shkoder
2007 Participant at AMC price Exhibition in Tirana
2007 Resident at TICA ( Tirana Institute of Contemporary Art ) 2007 Participant at the Spring
Exhibition in Tirana; 14 June 2007 at 07:04

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CONCEPT

Albania

A New Visual (E)vocation wants to emphasis the interesting new artistic mood in the country trough pieces of art that are strongly connoted by an evocative atmosphere; each one in fact, in different ways, is deeply metaphoric and has in itself the aim of being strongly representative of the reality, but above all it wants to show the real feelings of each artist about the world, especially the country and the society they live in. Even the ones who seem to relate only with their inner inside evocate indeed the fact of being part of a country which is complicated and fascinating at the same time.

Albania can be seen as a ‘virgin’ land, one that has risen and looked with a critical eye over the world of the contemporary art scene indeed because has been out of it for such a long time. A world which so often appears bored with itself, its mechanisms of exploitation and violence, its attempts to defile the simple expressive ability of an image to move, twisting it into some perverse intellectual game.

This exhibition wants to experience its artistic vocation, which tries to evoke the sign of the past but also has a deep hankering after the future. The theme that I propose is simple. The interest is in all the visual arts that are to me, opportune to represent the sensibility of the country: visual Art that looks at Albanian society and its history, that investigates its roots, its memory, the prerogatives of the language, the sense of belonging to a geographic place, the sense of being a depositor of history that is actually changing under the deep mark of fast and heavy globalisation. My aim is to investigate all this trough the sensitive eye of each artist exploring the all around , utilizing the aesthetic approach to the reality with a critical and sharp point of view.

The pieces of art also consider the experiences of separation, going away physically or ideologically from one’s own culture; the interactions, the clutches, the affinities and contrasts between the known and unknown, the influence of myths, its heritage, the conditioning of the national flag; but above all the exibition tries to go deeper into understanding into the real how and why of their artistic production. How can they give new meanings to ideas recollected from a past age or recovered from underneath the cultural conditioning?

My aim is essentially a search and documentation of change trough an evocative sign. The change that comes from distress, from regret; the change that is springing up as a result of new intellectual forces; the changes that result from the popular and the spontaneous; and the change that is coming about as a consequence of contemporary artistic expressions, which desire, above all else, concepts and events in evolution.

TIMES

Preliminary Phase : January to March 2007. Research about the Albanian history of art from the neolitic ceramic to the contemporary visual art, in particular about the latest albanian artists working abroud and the great development that has been given to the visual arts during the last few years either in the public galleries and in the private ones. First Phase: March-May 2007. Staying in Albania, research, finding the artists, keeping and developing the preliminar contacts with albanian public and private institutions. Second Phase: June-July 2007. Art Exibition in Scutari. August-September 2007. Art Exibition in Terni and Milan. Third Phase: Trying to estabilish new work contacts between italian galleries an foundation and the young albanian artists.