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Artist Statement:
Artistic statement
Like a film fragment standing
daily before our eyes, a film
where we feel being at the
same time viewers and actors,
Albania of the years 2000 is
obsessed by a consumerist
fever, from the beginning of
another system of references,
which nevertheless, unable to
substitute entirely the old
one and matching everyday with
him, is aiming to reach a much
dreamed Eldorado.
We experience around us a
strong loging for consume, a
loging which gradually is
transforming our psyche and
our system of values, but that
nevertheless hasn’t been able
to reach the essence of what
is original, “exotic”,
interesting and sincere. These
are moments that I see
everyday, people that I know,
people living the everyday
poetic and prosaic moments of
existence, people anonymous
and real in the capitalist
Albania of the years 2000.
We participate in this
fairytale since fifteen years,
with absurd scenes,
tragicomic, kind and painful,
grotesques and unique, which
at the same time are the
features of the new Albanian
identity of these last years.
Witnessing everyday this
transformation is difficult
not to be stimulated by these
signals which are found
everywhere, you can’t keep
yourself by turning the head
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Edmond Gjikopulli Biography:
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Age
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40
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
99
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| Religion |
orthodoxe |
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| Education |
High School |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Painting Oil
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Post-Modernism - (1975 - )
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
francesco clemente
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| Favorite Work of Art |
not provided
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Edmond Gjikopulli
1967 - Born in Vlora, in 26.05.
1986 - Graduated at the High School, (Lyceum) “Jordan Misja”, Tirana
1990 - Graduated at the Higher Institute of Arts (actual Academy of Arts), Tirana
1990-1998 - Pedagogue at the High School (Lyceum) “Jordan Misja”, Tirana
1998 -2001 - Works and lives in Athens, Greece
1995 - 1997, 2002 till now, Pedagogue in Academy of Arts, Tirana
2001 till now, Art Director in adolescent magazine “Trendy”
Exhibitions
1993 - Personal exhibition in the National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
1995 - Personal exhibition in Warsaw
2001 - Participation in Biennale of Athens, Greece
2002 - Personal exhibition in the Gallery “Art’s Friends”, Tirana
2003 - Personal exhibition in Athens, Gallery “Image”
First Price in a National Exhibition “November 6”, NGA, Tirana
2004 - Participation in a National Exhibition “November 7”, NGA, Tirana
2005 - Participation in a National Exhibition “Gjergj Kastrioti Scanderbeg”, NGA,
Tirana and Prishtina (Kosovë)
Participation in a National Exhibition “ArtMay”, Gallery of Arts, Shkodër
Participation in a National Exhibition “November 8”, NGA, Tirana
Participation in “Tiranabiennale3”, Tirana
2006 - Participation in “Tirana Artexpo”, Tirana
Participation in a National Exhibition “Riviera”, HNM, Tirana
Participation in a National Exhibition “November 9”, NGA, Tirana
Participation in a National Exhibition “Onufri”, NGA, Tirana
2007 - Personal exhibition in Athens, Greece
Participation in Biennale of Florence, Italy
2008 - Personal exhibition at "Zeta" art gallery, Tirana
One work in a National Gallery of Arts, Tirana and many of his works can be found in private collections in Albania, Poland, Greece, USA, France, Sweden, etc.
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