Albania: IRGIN SENA

21/05/2007

IRGIN SENA - revealer

Irgin Sena
was born on 1982.

Lives and works in Tirana

video, 2.58 min, 2006, DVD

“When the night falls and the city gets in to dark, the electrical light is turned on in my room and is this changing of light that shows the presence of the window. The border from which is defined the space, where the cityscape is watched from, through

its reflection.”

The author plays with the concept of in and out, the revealing of a new situation by the passing of time, the chancing of light.

Through filming sequences of a day and than editing them he created the feeling of the whole without feeling the absence of the missing parts.

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albaniavisualart said...: ::Education:
1996-2000 Artistic high school “Jordan Misja”, Tirana
2001-2002 Academy of Arts, Tirana
2003 “WCC” Visual Arts, New York
2003-2006 Academy of Arts, Tirana
10/2006-2/2007 Hochschule fur Gestaltung, Karlsruhe, Germany

::Workshops:
2004 Speak Up, Malmo, Sweden
2004 Cetinje Biennial 5, Shkodra
2004 Bergamo, Itali
2006 Tirana Transfer, Karlsruhe, Germany

::Exhibitions:
2004 Here and Now, Ciostro di San Agostino, Bergamo
2004 Cetinje Biennial 5, Cetinje
2005 1 Minute Video, National Centre for Cultures, Tirana
2005 Tirana Bienale 3, collaboration with Andrea Culuncic, Tirana
2005 Dajti Hotel, Tirana
2006 Saze On Tour, Hotel Mariakapel, Hoorn, Netherlands
2006 In Search of Video Art, Galeria e Vogël, Tirana
2006 Tirana Transfer, Badischer-Kunstverein, Karlsrue
2006 Tirana Last Show, 1.60Insurgentspace, public space, Tirana
2007 1234567, HFG, Karlsruhe
2007 Lothringer 13, Munich, Germany; 28 May 2007 at 07:49

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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.