“Rarely do I begin a canvas without first making studies. While drawing, external things enter inward and unexpectedly evolve into a discovery. At the beginning, I find myself confronting chaos—it is difficult to choose what to tell and why. Then begins the roar, so to speak, the struggle between idea and matter, where the power of thought reaches the point of obsession without ever crossing its limits, while matter inevitably, physically, impresses my thoughts onto the paper.
I believe that drawing contains a kind of unique principle, free from fears and expectations, and an inexhaustible source of possibilities. After spending hours and hours almost driven mad by the attempt to represent ideas through the essential lines, searching for a path to follow, everything once again becomes confused, seemingly uncontrollable and devoid of logic.
In essence, one never escapes the feeling that there is always something left to put in order—both in the mind and on the canvas.” – Sulltane Tusha, interview by Andrea Bruciati. (attached full interview in Italian)
Sulltane Tusha was born in Durrës, Albania, in 1988. She graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice and currently lives and works in Venice.From 2010 to 2014, she participated in the Summer Painting Workshop curated by Carlo Di Raco, Miriam Pertegato and Martino Scavezzon at Forte Marghera, Italy. In 2012, she took part in a workshop led by Urs Fischer at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice. In 2014, she was a finalist for the Combat Prize, held at Museo Civico Giovanni Fattori, ex Granai di Villa Mimbelli, Livorno.
