30YEARSOLD
Tirana - FAB Gallery
The Italian artist Eugenio Tibaldi built a project between July 2018 and March 2019 which is exhibited at the FAB Gallery of the University of Arts in Tirana from 11 to 31 March 2019. The title refers to a very precise historical age and suggests to try to celebrate it, but to do so we should not be alone. And it is precisely for this reason that the artist decided to carry out the project through a laboratory method.
30 YEARS OLD
A PROJECT BY EUGENIO TIBALDI
Created by the Italian Cultural Institute of Tirana in collaboration with the University of the Arts and Harabel Contemporary Art Platform.
Tirana - FAB Gallery
Monday 11 March 2019, 6 pm
The Italian artist Eugenio Tibaldi built a project between July 2018 and March 2019 which is exhibited at the FAB Gallery of the University of Arts in Tirana from 11 to 31 March 2019. The title refers to a very precise historical age and suggests to try to celebrate it, but to do so we should not be alone. And it is precisely for this reason that the artist decided to carry out the project through a laboratory method.
Starting from sharing their own methodology and proposing a common theme to work on, the works on display are the result of collaboration between young Albanian artists who responded to an open call. Starting from Tibaldi's first visit to Albania in October 2018 and on the occasion of Contemporary Day, the project participants walked, photographed, chatted, analyzed, organized, and produced works from which reflected a reflection on the thirty years of change of the city of Tirana from 1989 until today.
The project is the result of a mixture of looks starting from that of the Italian artist who belongs to a previous generation and integrated with that of who - the participants of the workshop - grew up in post-socialist Albania and lives the place in his daily time. The city of Tirana, in its architectural peculiarities becomes a scenario that offers imperfections, folds, nuances that are hardly put into a system as minor narratives. Encroached by macro-history, they elude us but, as Tibaldi suggests, they become participatory elements capable of telling the story of change.