“Constructing a dream” – an Albanian art exhibition in Pera Museum

March 21, 2021 Uncategorized 0 Comments

From July 7 to November 22, 2020, in the wellknown Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey, the exhibition of Albanian artists “Constructing a dream”, curated by Artan Shabani, opened its doors to the publicum. Guri Madhi was presented with 8 works, among which the “First meeting”, “When we do not go to the stadium”, “Demonstration of Korca”, “Gracen”, etc. Despite the limitations caused by the pandemic, the exhibition woke a great interest to the local and foreign public, being visited by over 50,000 visitors. All Turkish electronic and print media widely covered and appraised the exhibition.

“Visione di confini” – “A vision of borders”

November 4, 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments
 The residency of the Italian Embassy in Tirana has opened its doors to the exposition “Visione di confini” (17 October –  31 December 2018). As the title suggests, the theme of this exposition is the artistic bond between the two countries, beautifully represented with artworks of authors who have received an education based on the Italian school of Fine Arts.
Ibrahim Kodra, Lin Delija, Vangjush Mio, Foto Stamo and Abdurrahim Buza are among the 13 artists to participate. One of them is also Guri Madhi, who has attended the Italian technical school of Korca (Scuola Tecnica Italiana) for three years (1934-1936), specialising in the discipline of drawing. He would later continue his education in the Academy of Saint Petersburg in Russia (1951-1956).
The displayed Guri Madhi’s artworks are 5:
-Woman wearing a traditional dress from Korça (1956)
-Abstraction (1961)
-Composition (1966)
-When we can’t go to the stadium (1986)
-The student (1988)

“Albania: the spirit of times” exhibition to tour around Italy-(one Guri Madhi’s work presented)

July 10, 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Guri Madhi “Battle of Mushqeta”(fragment)

“Albania: the spirit of the times,” inaugurated on June 30, 2018, at the  Acre Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA), is conceived as a moving museum exhibition, with the starting point being Calabria, the Arbëresh epicenter in Southern Italy.

The exhibition, curated by Artan Shabani, former head of the National Gallery of Arts, will showcase various artworks by Albanian artists.“It is a long-term project I thought of starting from Calabria, under the atmosphere of the year dedicated to national hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and in respect of the memory of the Arberesh, of Albanian culture and history, both old and new,” Shabani told to local media.

Calabria is the city where, 550 years ago, the Arbëresh – Albanians who moved to Italy after the death of National hero Gjergj Kastrioti Skanderbeg and establishment of Ottoman rule during the Middle Ages – settled to spread to Sicily, Basilica and other southern Italian provinces.

The exhibition focuses on the period of realistic socialism during the second half of the 1900s, as part  of the political platform of the communist regime ideology and then the nineties, with the end of planned art and the emergence of a new period in the Albanian art scene, with young artists who followed novel artistic expressions and methods, to contemporary art, whose language speaks of contemporary issues, similar to those of European artists, like social tensions, identity search, dialogue beyond bounded territories.

Some of featuring artists include Adrian Devolli, Lefter Shtembari, Skënder Kamberi, Nikolin Ivanaj, Foto Stamo, Guri Madhi, Ibrahim Kodra, Petro Kokushta, Anastas Kostandini Taso, Qamil Prizreni, Vladimir Kekezi, Emin Shaqja, Zini Veshi, Alkan Nallbani, Vangjush Vellahu, Agron Hoti, Arjan Shehaj, Vangjel Gjikondi, Eltjon Valle, etc.

The exhibition will remain open until the end of October, while by November it is expected to move to a museum in Veneto and other Italian provinces.

Guri Madhi’s Skanderbeg at the Palace of Congresses

January 17, 2018 Uncategorized 0 Comments

Part of the festivities dedicated to the 550th anniversary of the death of the Albanian national hero Skanderbeg is the exhibition opened on January 16th 2018 at the Palace of Congresses in Tirana. 30 works of art and many documents and books are being displayed to honour the hero. 2 Guri Madhi works also attend the exhibition. Below, pictures of the primeminister of Albania Edi Rama and the president of Albania Ilir Meta standing in front of the painting “The turks surrender their weapons”.

Ne kuader te aktiviteteve te organizuara me rastin e 550 vjetorit te vdekjes se Heroit Kombetar shqiptar Gjergj Kastrioti Skenderbeu, ne daten 16 janar 2018, ne Pallatin e Kongreseve, u hap ekspozita “Tre ditet e yllit te mengjesit” me rreth 30 vepra kushtuar kesaj figure historike. Ne kete ekspozite u prezantuan dy vepra te Guri Madhit. Ne foto presidenti dhe kryeministri i Shqiperise perpara tablose “Turqit dorezojne armet”.

 

Edi Rama and Ilir Meta in front of “The turks surrender their weapons”

“The Turks surrender their weapons”, 1959, 90×65 cm

Drawing of “Skanderbeg with soldiers”, 1966, 65×50 cm

 

“Generations” – exceptional participation in the exhibition

December 29, 2017 Uncategorized 0 Comments

A Guri Madhi oeuvre is participating in the exhibition named “The generations” (20.12.17 – 30.12.17), taking place at the National Historical Museum of Albania in Tirana. The painting is a landscape from Dajti Mountain, near the city of Tirana. Its dimensions are 60 cm x 43 cm, and it is realised in 1986 with oil on board technique.

 

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