A HISTORY OUT OF CONTEXT

Dal Thursday 25 August 2011
al Monday 19 September 2011

Orari:
Tuesday - Saturday from 10 AM - 8 PM; Summer Hours: Tuesday - Friday from 10 AM - 7 PM until July 17th and by appointment

Curator Alberto Zanchetta
in collaboration with The Promenade Gallery | Vlorë Albania


The Promenade Gallery is glad to present the group exhibition of;
Cristian Chironi,Igor Eškinja, Ardian Isufi, Dacia Manto, Anahita Razmi, Artan Shabani, Enkelejd Zonja

Anahita Razmi,Video (4.55 min), Februar 2004 ''How your veil can help you in the case of an earthquake''

The video work, ''How your veil can help you in the case of an earthquake (lesson 1-8)'' is linked to an event that took place just before the date of origin of the video: the big earthquake in the region of Bam, Iran in December 2003. In the video the chador, the veil, symbol of muslim women, is used as a mere functional object. Shot in clearly contrasting black and white, the video is showing a rigorous direction in eight steps on how to use your veil as a lifesaver in the case of an earthquake, a dry run, that is reminding of stewardess instructions.

Anahita Razmi shows us how to use the chador (the veil of the muslim women) in case of an earthquake. Using a didactic language,the artist transforms the veil – which from a religous symbol translates/reduces into a simple object-teaching us how to save other people's lifes.

Cristian Chironi Gap #3, 2008, inkjet print from scanned negative d-bond, edition of 4 + p.d.a. in different format
In the series entitled Gap, Cristian Chironi, is inspired for his research from the photo archive of the Institute Parri Emilia-Romagna (Italy), using some pictures taken by Vittorio Vialli, the military captured and imprisoned in 1943 in a concentration camp in Germany . Vialli succeeded in hiding during his imprisonment, his camera and some film, documenting the few moments of "escape" in the camp.

The game of football is the pretext that Chiron chooses as a link, to relate past and present, introducing also himself together with the detainees, materially enlarging the image in a scale 1:1 and re-making himself photographed in front of the seabed standing over a rise made of transparent Plexiglas.

A gap in time and space relationship between the elements, likely to give rise to a series of relationships that cause vision through linguistic and ethycal problems.

Ardian Isufi '' Pa titull ne Kohe'', 40 x 30 cm mixed media on papers 1984-89"
> In the work of Ardian Isufi, dating to the eighties, there is an irony subtle brain, which reduces the order of time to return to the tradition of painting a subversive attitude.

Create a report and a reaction between past and present

In Asterina videos, drawings of Dacia are interwoven with natural elements, fading into the landscape, "French place" where weave relationships between what is natural and what is artificial. The artist then creates an area that is outside the control of man and Mother Nature. In the eight lectures given by the video "How your veil can help you in the case of an earthquake."

In Asterina videos, drawings of Dacia are twisted with natural elements, fading into the landscape, "French place" where relationships between what is natural and what is artificial can easily build up.

The artist then creates an area that is outside the control of man and Mother Nature. In the eight lectures given by the video "How your veil can help you in the case of an earthquake

Artan Shabani, ''A History out Of Context'', installation 2011, variable dimension, Courtesy The Promenade Gallery

Artan Shabani presents here a few piles of the old castle of Vlora, remains of an "ancient memory" that has been lost over the past twenty years, during the destruction and reconstruction of the city.

Reviving the pilings out of the water, that is, outside of their original context (now deceased) but preserving the memory of a culture drowned by the events.

Placing itself beyond the headlines and history, these works propose a different story than the reality we know, because out of context and patterns. It is certain that they are no less real and believable!

Igor Eškinja PANEL DISCUSSION (in basement), 2010 Lambda print, 60x120cm Courtesy Federico Luger Gallery

Panel discussion is a photographic work that is a part of space constructions which form "impossible picture".

Work is lacated in a non context ambient tipycal for the gallery and museum spaces. It rapresents a grupation of fiticious chairs raminding us to possible gathering both in past as in future.

In reality chairs are cut out from the carpet which have a temporary, precarious and fremovable character.

Enkelejd Zonja ''Miss Patty'' 100x70 oil on canvas, 2010 Courtesy The Promenade Gallery

The painting is part of a series where the focus is set on the woman figure and her position in society.

My attempt has been capturing an intimate moment of the character's everyday life. Solitude,sadness, insecurity lay in the underground of a melancholic atmosphere.

The challenging look of a woman hides the enigma of her personal life history.

The exhibition '' A HISTORY OUT OF CONTEXT '' will be open to the public until September 19, 2011 at the Promenade Gallery, Bulevardi Skele Uji I Ftohte, 9401,Vlorë.

Opening 25 August 2011 8 pm

From 25 august 2011 to 19 september 2011

Bulevardi Skelë Uji i Ftohte
AL 9401, Vlorë ALBANIA
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