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30th june - 15th july 2007

mon - sun / 9am - 2pm

LUCIEN BEDENI - no title

Lucien Bedeni
was born in 1987

Lives and works in Shkodra


video, 2006, DVD



This is a poetic and strong video about a violation of an urban space.

The fragment taken from the view was the old traditional house that has been raped from the new aggressive building at the back of it .

Identified with the so called infrastructure violence this formal games transforms the view in a chaos where “the big fish eats the small one”.

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YLLKA GJIKOPULLI

Feminine images…Life passages sweet or painful, private moments, the relaxing taking care of their inner, or a dramatic extract from an every day life.

The most variegate portrait of what can be nowadays, the ideas of being a young woman a bride, a woman playing with her femininity or having trouble with that, but everything lived as the main character.

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ANDI HILA

Andi Hila
was born in 1970

Lives and works in Shkodra

This painting belongs to a triptych where Andi Hila represents the buildings and the way people would look as we were 50 years ago

He actually builds the painting transporting the same buildings and people in the nowadays reality, with new body movements and especially with a new point of view in the representation.

It is a consideration about a new post- communist way of painting through indeed a new figurative and space composition and a definitive changed approach to the representation of men and citizens.Painting people from the back it is like exploring a new man no more looked but who is now looking.

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SIDI KANANI - no title

Sidi Kanani
was born in...
Lives and works in...





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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SHPËTIM KERÇOVA - no title

Shpëtim Kërçova
was born in 1968.

Lives and works in Tirana

The Virus, the Sickness in these warring painting that fascinates with its deepness its atmosphere that comes from a sophisticate high level painting technique

A Disquieting child , among a group of scaring but weak dogs afflicted by a pinkish skin virus.

Are they dying or not?

They will survive the virus? Are they the virus? Will they spread it? Can the kid be saved from that virus? Is he part of it?

Does he want to be part of it? Is the virus diabolic as we can tell from the sight of one of the dogs?

Or is just the way the history has to go on, dealing with viruses?

A painting with a devastating beauty as a metaphor of what is seem to be go on in the contemporary Albanian society, and that needs to be analyzed and understood.

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RUBIN MANDIJA - tumulus

Rubin Mandija
was born in 1977.

Lives and works in Shkodra






Length of each head approx. 18 cm.
Material: uncoated clay and porcelain plates, 2005

Tumulus aims to induce a sharp sense of loss.

The title (that of an ancient graveyard) is endowed to a contemporary art work that celebrates the nowadays sense of the personal identity loosing.

The anonymity of the faces provides for the “victims” to be potentially anyone, and making the heads of earth tends to be akin to the title.

This crude serving in a typical Albanian plate is the momentum of the work.

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SUELA QOSHIA - comics and photos

Suela Qoshia
was born on 1981.
Lives and works in Tirana

comics, 200

Tirana, a comic disenchanted portrait of a city, trough the sensibility of a young women artist that live as a character the changes, the vertiginous, the giddy dance of her city going so fast and to which she is hardly trying to relate conserving her lightness.

Feminine images…Life passages sweet or painful, private moments, the relaxing taking care of their inner, or a dramatic extract from an every day life.

The most variegate portrait of what can be nowadays, the ideas of being a young woman a bride, a woman playing with her femininity or having trouble with that, but everything lived as the main character.

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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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GENTIAN SHKURTI - alice in worderland

Gentian Shkurti
was born in 1977.

Lives and works in Tirana

video,3.40 min, 1997, DVD

"As Alice says:

In my world everything would be absurd. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn´t. What it is it wouldn’t be and what it wouldn’t be, it would."

"Alice in Wonderland" is a cutting of Walt Disney’s cartoon movie "Alice in Wonderland" and the TV broadcasting of Chaos in Albania during the year 1997.

The video is built like a dialogue of Alice and Wonderland’s door. Alice wants to enter to Wonderland (in this case not the well known one but Albania), where people got guns and shoot in the air wearing masks.

The world of cartoons especially the freshness and delicate beauty of Disney’s one, it s just perfect to evocate a fantastic situation that weirdly matches in a perfect way with something so real, that is violence, but that is often so absurd that can be even ironically harsh.

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