Image: Anri Sala, Who Is Afraid Of Red Yellow And Green, 2008
Video ( 2:35 Min), Loop; Ed 6. Courtesy of Johnen Galerie, Berlin
WHO IS AFRAID OF RED YELLOW AND GREEN
Opening 11 July 2009
From 11 July 2010 to 14 September 2010
The Promenade Gallery is glad to present the group exhibition of:
ALBAN MUJA, ADRIAN PACI, ANRI SALA, ARTAN SHABANI, DRIANT ZENELI, 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, " Catch Me"C - print, 2007 (Photo courtesy of Kiriko Shirobyashi).
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, «Nobody is romantic anymore», 2008, video dvd, 18’ 51’’
Courtesy Francesca Kaufmann, Milano, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurigo e Peter Blum Gallery, New York
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, The Singing lions,2009, C - print, 2007, 100\70 cm.
Courtesy, The Promenade Gallery
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, ''The Dream Of Icarus Was to Make a Cloud'', video, color, sound, 4'05''
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, “To Divide it,” color print, 150X100cm, 2008, courtesy of the artist
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 , The Promenade Gallery
Opening 11 july 2009 8 pm
From 11 july 2010 to 14 september 2010
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