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Häftad, Engelska, 2018
259 kr
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This catalog accompanies Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation, the first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe. Through Hila’s eyes, the Eastern European experience is stripped of accident or adventure and instead gives weight to distilled general truths.The catalog traces key moments from his formative artistic experience, including a firsthand account of his infamous 1972 painting, Planting of Trees, which because of its unusual use of color and form that ran contrary to approved socialist realist doctrine, led to his being forced to labor in a poultry processing plant. In the evenings, however, he secretly created a series of drawings documenting the life of the workers, which became the Poultry series, harrowing in its raw realism. The publication continues to track Hila’s practice through the 1990s, when we find the artist carefully observing life after the fall of Enver Hoxha’s regime and his attempts at depicting the realities of the Albanian transformation on the precipice of the new millennium, before concluding with a review of Hila’s contemporaneous practice, which discloses more the limitations and traps of transformation than its promises. Richly illustrated with reproductions of Hila’s work in full color, many of them never before published, this is a groundbreaking catalog, one that will help establish Hila’s international reputation as a master painter of the region and Europe at large.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
471 kr
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“The sequence of images across these pages—which I conceived as a traveling shot across the dimension of transition—shares a single cursor. No matter where each image appears to lead us or where our imagination drifts, what unifies them is the evolution of light. It is as if the entire book unfolded during a single day. But it is a day whose time has been reversed.” —Anri SalaThis publication, conceived by museo Madre, is more than a simple book; it is an artists’ book in which Anri Sala interacts with the corpus of paintings by Edi Hila. As Eva Fabbris, the Director of museo Madre, points out in her brief essay, Sala engages Hila’s work in a contemplative and cinematic way, allowing the historical and political consciousness the two share to surface gradually through the sequencing of images.Born thirty years apart in Albania, Hila and Sala share not only a geography but a historical condition. Both were formed at the Academy of Arts in Tirana—Hila as a student and later a professor, and Sala as part of the generation that encountered the institution at the threshold of the regime’s collapse. If Hila’s early career unfolded under the strictures of Socialist Realism and direct censorship, Sala’s began in the vacuum that followed its dissolution.Sala reads the transformations that have marked Eastern Europe—emerging through Hila’s paintings—as conditions that may also be understood in broader, even universal terms. This narration unfolds through both full views and selected details, photographed under Sala’s direction. The guiding “cursor” of the book is the evolution of light. It is as if the entire publication takes place within a single day—yet a day whose time has been reversed. It begins at night and retreats through dusk, late afternoon, early afternoon, high noon, late morning, early morning, until sunrise, completing a full, inverted cycle.