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<\/figure>\n\n\n\nNY Glam: Tell us a little about yourself\nand your career beginnings.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I was born in a village called \u201cIballe\u201d which lies\nin North Albania. If I had to compare it with any figurative example, it would\nbe \u201cThe Starry Night\u201d of Vincent Van Gogh. I would define my childhood with the\nwords they would be \u201cimpresses me\u201d. my interest for art started very early\nsince in my primary school, as I had a gift in writing, later in Music and at\nlast I found myself interested in painting and drawing. To be honest, I was\nconfused about what I really wanted to do. It was the professional high school\n\u201c Jordan Misja\u201d that gave me the right direction about the history of Art and\nthe picture. Colors like dark brown, white and yellow were the colors that gave\nme character when I used them in each canvas of that study time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After the end of the school, I managed to receive an\nanswer about the picture, the style, and the colors that I mentioned above. And\nI found out that I liked the \u201cEarth\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n University of Arts was a real challenge to the\n\u201cunknown\u201d. It was the moment that I would find myself connected with the\nconcept of \u201cabstraction\u201d. I had some mystical questions inside me about the\nimage, the color, the touching, feelings etc. I was so enthusiastic that I have\ncreated much more than I can create for the rest of my life. After a year of\nstudies at the university, I lead myself to multimedia. During my different\nexperiments I was more and more interested into video Art and\ninstallation.Video Art was the best spiritual poem that I could bring out of\nmyself. In general, the ideas of my video art have come as a result of an inner\nconcern , whereas the installation as an out concern. Like every new artist\nduring the university studies, I have been through some different experiences\nsuch as; participation in short film competitions, theatre and of course\nexhibitions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY\nGlam: What projects are you currently working on?<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I am working on a personal exhibition which I called\n\u201cEverything but Tomato\u201d. It is a long process which has taken me about 3 years.\nI am trying to include video art, installation and ready made. \u201cEverything but\nTomato\u201d is a metaphor taken from fast food places where I had to work, my\nexperience there made me understand how people pick what they like and what\nthey don\u2019t like. What impresses me the most is that the same thing happens in\nthe World of Art, where not intentionally we choose to listen or see what is\nmore visual and more popular.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What art do you most identify\nwith?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Video art and installation are the techniques that I\nhave stopped and I am experimenting in different expressions, thoughts feelings\nand touching. Mechanic movements of objects throughout electricity gives me an\ninternal satisfaction, I feel the creation of the object from non existing into\nexisting. The biography and the instinct are my most important columns inside\nme. I come from an expressive biography, full of events and features, I come\nback from time to time and I find old marks like in a canvas, I return them in\nthe most minimalist way possible. Object with no value, are the ones are the\nones that wake my instinct up through changing them into valuable ones, maybe\nnot exactly as they used to be but a new face of movements and concepts. Most\nof my work I have found in different situations, through working in building\nhouses, through studies, traveling, shooting movies, meeting other people who\npoke you emotionally. A lot of this work contains naivety, courage, press-ion\nand you go into a new space like a double gravity. the\naim of my concepts is to go exactly where it is thought there is nothing to\ndiscover.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What themes do you pursue?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The thing that connects my works with each other or\nlet say the style is the illusion, the desire to turn the creation into a\nmagical one , in order to astonish the others, to be unique in its kind. In\nfact, I take care a lot for the esthetic view of the creation, why not I would\ncall myself minimalist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Concerns according to technology, different politics\n, what is right and what is not, restrictions etc are some factors that\ncharacterized many of my works and these factors have to reply in ironic and\n\u201cna\u00efve\u201d way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What\u2019s your favorite art work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n History is one of my works that gave me the chance\nto be direct, different from other works. It is a moment inside you, that knows\nyour artistic strength of formation and you are ready to share it with others\nlike an argument, that , when I understood about the commercial at the same\ntime I understood that I was concerned about how commercial is so present,\nselling, and so advertised. The irony leads me to a picture, as you have\nobserved, which is very present everywhere especially in Albania, selling so much\ncopies and so cheap because it is printed and it is just a dye to deceive\nothers as a true one. The meter that measures the centimeters, during all the\ntime is the clear indicator of the irony in front of the customization of the\ndetailed treatment of the box and the seniority that are part of the style that\nall my works carry. The dialogue between the work and the viewers did not have\nmany question-marks because like the title and the installation itself were\nvery clear about the message, and we welcomed it as an appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Getting started from the history of the picture with\nits styles of painting that great artists inherited them to us in order to take\nthem to other generations, it is exactly here where the concern of \u201ccopy right\u201d\nand \u201cmultiplier\u201d of artistic values starts and it is becoming a winning way in\nArt<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Tells us about some of your\nrecent exhibitions. What memorable responses have you had to your work?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Before traveling towards the United States I came\nwith a group achievement where we made an exhibition called \u201cAt home\u201d, It was\nspecial because of the simple fact that it was made on a livable house. It was\na shot towards the politic system in Albania to support young artists, public\nspaces and against power abuse. After this huge step for me, I was invited to\nan even bigger event, a work shop organized in Monodendri, Joannina Greece.It\nwas one of the experiences that I couldn\u2019t miss for any reason. At the time\nthat I was there I created on of my best performances.The Greek legends and\nphilosophy were the first harasses and then the enchanted nature sent me to\nthe\u201d Double Gravity\u201d performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n After I moved to Massachusetts in 2017, I really\nwanted to present some of my art work so I started looking around for some\npossible art galleries that I could be a part of. It didn\u2019t take long and the\nright opportunity came, uncertainty principle at Fbac gallery hosted by Renee\nRicciardi had me as one of their guests. Throughout my artistic experiences I\nhave also experimented on short movies, one of them being \u201cThe Last Journey\u201d.\nIn 2018 I was part of the Albanian film week in New York where I presented my\nShort movie \u201cThe Last Journey\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In 2019 I was part of ARTExchange pop up, NY where I\npresented one of my minimal work \u201cMedium\u201d. It was an interesting experience, I\nhad never been exposed to an event like this before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Tell us about one of your\nprojects which you are very proud of.?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n One of the projects that really made me know what Im\ncapable of doing was at \u201cTirana 48hr film Project 2011\u201d where I represented my\nmovie \u201cTwins\u201d and got two awards, best movie and best director. I felt really\nproud of myself, It was such a great accomplishment for a young artist like me. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What does \u201cbeing creative\u201d mean\nto you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Being creative to me usually comes as a concern\nwhich takes over me and I lose in the \ninstincts\nworld, It connects me to the Past, The present and The future. To combine your\ndaily routine with being creative is a really modest thing to do especially for\nthe life that I have chosen to live .<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What are you trying to\ncommunicate with your art?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I prefer to\ncommunicate through ready made , I try to bring whats inside of us not fully\nbuilt and naive. I don’t like to be very conceptual meanwhile the objects that\nI use are simple, livable with the era that we are livng in, is really easy to\npresent at this time. I think that in now days communication is really creating\na huge gab between the public and the artist and also from the art work and the\nartist.In my opinion the art work should be able to communicate itself. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What role does the Artist have\nin Society?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n In my opinion we are living at a time where the\nartist is not alone, Its a huge mass of people which have found, maybe without\nrealizing an artistic \u201cnest\u201d. I started this by saying that we are not alone, I\nalso want to say that we are included without realizing in a group of people\nthat are making new researches towards social media.If I would take an example\nin the evolution of social networks, the way how they act to catch as much\nattention as possible, or to be valued as an object or event, it comes exactly\nfrom non-existing , reminds me Joseph Beuys who says:”every man is an\nartist”.we are living in a world that i think that everyone is creating\nand absolutely it is not a bad thing. contrary, we are all going together\ntoward feelings, culmination and toward the unknown. i would like to refer to a\nsentence that happens to hear it a lot: if i knew it before… this is the\nmoment of the instinctive research. i think that non-existing is around us, we\ncan feel it, touch it. if i say we can see it, i mean it has to be seen in\nanother point of view. rebuilding of an object with another function, not used\nto be, but with setting in a new space. these gives me satisfaction and i would\nsay that it is the climax of creativity and of a new concept.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What are your thoughts on being\nan artist in today\u2019s world?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n If you are able to be remembered as an artist at\nthis time you are definitely going to be the greatest artist of all times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: How has painting influenced\nyour life?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n I have been lucky enough to move a lot around the\nworld, and with me, also the painting has moved, my feelings and the colors. I\nhave always been curious to see how the place changes the painting. This has\nhelped me discover a lot about myself. Overall is the same impressionist\npainting with the same three colors that represent me; yellow, brown and white.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What art movement or artist\nwould you say influences your work most?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The thing that influenced me the most was definitely\nthe school that I went to which really formed me as an artist, with the great\nprofessors that I had there advising me throughout that difficult journey. I\nwould definitely say that I have been inspired by Rebecca Horn, Marcel Duchamp,\nJoseph Beuys, Damien Hirst and Marshall MCLuhan. Lately I started reading\n\u201cSeven Days in The Art World\u201d by Sarah Thorton which is changing my opinion in\na lot of things. <\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: What can we expect from you\nthis year?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Now I am actually working on an installation which I\ncalled \u201cConsume\u201d. I am thinking about sending it in some galleries where it\nwould fit conceptually and visually, after that Im hoping that throughout this\nyear I will finish the exhibition that I mentioned before, \u201cEverything but\nTomato\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NY Glam: Can you share with us three\nfavorite things about your city\/culture?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n At the moment Im living in Abington, Massachusetts,\nits a small town and it has a beautiful lake which would be perfect for every\npainter. Each move that I have done has shown its values later in time. This\nmove to America makes me understand and think that it takes a lot of time to\nhave a concrete analyze. It is the best laboratory where you reflect about your\npast. Actually, I am spending my time analyzing and not creating. If I compare\nit to Albania this is the difference; there I created while here I am\nanalyzing. But I feel good in this phase of my life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Each move that I have done has shown its values later in time. This move to America makes me understand and think that it takes a lot of time to have a concrete analyze. It is the best laboratory where you reflect about your pas. Actually, I am spending my time analyzing and not creating. If I compare it to Albania this is the difference; there I created while here I am analyzing. But I feel good in this phase of my life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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