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JIP & JAKUP FERRI – TINTIRINI

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JIP & JAKUP FERRI TINTIRINI
24/06 – 31/07/2021

Gallery70 ka kënaqësinë të prezantojë ekspozitën e Jip & Jakup Ferri . Ato vijnë me një seri qilimash të dizenjuar në bashkëpunim nga artisti Jakup Ferri dhe i biri 11 vjecar Jip, frymëzuar nga teknologjia dhe punuar nga gra artizane në Veri të Shqipërisë. Kjo ekspozitë është një premierë evropiane që pas Tiranës do të vazhdojë rrugëtimin drejt Austrisë dhe Hollandës. “Një karakteristikë e vecantë e kohës sonë të re dhe të egër, është dualizmi… të distancuar dhe njëkohësisht të dënuar për të qëndruar gjatë me njeri-tjetrin. Sipas grekëve të lashtë dualizmi mund të jetë edhe luhatje e personalitetit, por legjenda thotë se dualizmi mund të jetë edhe shprehje e dashurisë. Në rastin tonë artisti kosovar Jakup Ferri ia ka besuar tërësisht deduksionin rreth dualizmit djalit të tij 11 vjecar, Jipit. Ai beson se dashuria e tyre është vetëm tipari i versionit të dytë. ” Jipi, djali im i luan disa lojëra kompjuterike, dhe pashë se me sa qejf e lehtësi dizajnonte. Unë gjithmonë kam dëshirë që punet e mija të kenë një bazë. E pyeta djalin tim nëse ishte i gatshëm të nisnim një punë së bashku. Dizajnimet e Jipit në këtë lojë janë ndërlidhur në një linjë me trashëgiminë e teknologjisë moderne, dhe kjo ide rezultoi me krijimin e qilimit të parë, që u punuar nga disa gra në një fshat të Veriut të Shqipërisë. Per mua ky nuk ishte qilimi i parë se tek kthehem në kohë me qilimat kam nis te eksperimentoj para rreth dhjete vitesh. Në atë kohë bashkëpunoja me tim atë per shumë vite. Këto dy vitet e fundit, isha shkëputur por designimet e Jipit më ngacmuan …”.

Jipi edhe pse  ende i vogël, e kupton se legjenda e Jules Verne “Dy Vjet Pushime”, tashmë  është  realiteti absolut. Prandaj ai luan në një lojë kompjuteri  e njohur si Animal Crossing. Dy vjet kalojnë sa hap e mbyll sytë dhe babë e bir nuk do të kenë më kaq shumë kohë për njeri-tjetrin. Po AnimalCrossing? A do ta shndërrojmë lojën e imazhit në lëvizje në dicka fizike, të prekshme dhe me kontekste që historia do të na buzëqeshte?
Jakup Ferri dëshiron të lidhë teknologjinë e fundit me traditën shqiptare në këtë projekt. Jipi është ndërlidhësi i këtij frymëzimi. Dizajnimet e tij nuk mendojnë historikisht. Ndërsa tradita është krejt në mëndjen dhe kujtimet e Jakupit. Ata janë dualizmi ideal…magneti është krejt në anën e shprehjes së dashurisë.
Është shumë interesante se si Ferri irikthehet teknologjisë pas kaq kohësh. Fillesat e artistit kosovar kanë qënë video-arti qysh herët në fillimin e viteve 2000, te cilat kanë patur një sukses të menjëhershëm,duke u prezantuar më së miri në ekpozita të rëndësishme si Istanbul Biennale, Quadriennal for Contenporary Art Copenhagen, Tanas Berlin, Artists Space New York etj .
Jakup Ferri ka qënë një nga risitë më brilante në artin bashkohor kosovar. Një karrierë që fillon me video e performanca dhe vijon me një rrugëtim tjeter, atipik, duke u përqëndruar tek arti naif dhe historiku I artistëve outsider.
E megjithatë, përpos të gjitha këtyre mutacioneve, nëse e kqyrim me vëmendje punën e Ferrit, aty do të zbulojmë ngahera të njëjtën gjurmë. Auto-ironia dhe dëshira për të luajtur në kah të kundert me stereotipin e zakonshëm, bëhen nji me poezinë e procesit. Të qënit adhurues i artistëve naive, për të është clirimi prej kornizave burokratike dhe prodhimit konvencional.
Kjo është ekspozita e parë ku Jakup Ferri prezanton këtë seri, dhe njëkohësisht hera e parë ku arti itij figurativ i dorëzohet dizajnimeve të Jipit, dhe Sol Lewitt duhet të na falë nëse Jipi nuk e imiton aspak, sepse ai është më I natyrshëm, më I lirë, me I bukur.”
Fani Zguro, Berlin, Qershor 2021

Gallery70 has the pleasure to present a project by  Jip & Jakup Ferri . In this exhibition they bring a series  carpets that the artist Jakup Ferri and his eleven-year-old son Jip have designed together, inspired by the technology and hand made  by handicrafts women from Northern Albania. This exhibition is a European premiere, to continue its journey to Austria and the Netherlands, soon after Albania.
 “A particular characteristics of our new and harsh time is dualism… distanced, but at the same time, condemned to stay together for long. According to ancient Greeks, dualism could even be a personality fluctuaction, but the legend says that dualism could be an expression of  love, as well.
In our case, the Kosovar artist Jakup Ferri has totally confided the deduction on dualism to his 11-year-old son, Jip. He believes their love is  entirely related to the second-version.
” Jip, my son, plays some computer games, and I have seen that he does that quite easily and funnily. I have always wanted my works to have a basis. I asked my son, whether he was ready to work together. Jip’s designs in this game are connected to modern technology inheritance and such an idea gave life to the first carpet creation which was crafted by some women from a village in the Northern Albania. For me, this is not the first carpet, I started experimenting with carpets almost ten years ago. At that time, I collaborated with my father for many years. Recently, I was detached from it, but  Jip’s designs stirred me up…”.

Despite his very young age, Jip understands that Jules Verne’s “Two years’ vacations”  now is an absolute reality.  That’s why he plays a computer game, called “Animal Crossing”.
Two years pass with a blink and father and son will not have so much time for each-other any more. What about Animal Crossing? Will we change the moving image game into something physical, tangible and contextual, so that history smiles at us?
In this project, Jakup Ferri wants to connect the final technology with the Albanian tradition. Jip is the liaison of such an inspiration. His designs are not based on history. Tradition is totally in Jakup’s mind and memories. They are the ideal dualism… the magnet is on the side of love expression.
It is very interesting to see how Ferri returns to technology after a long time. The beginnings of the Kosovar artist have been art-videos since the start of 2000, having an immediate success in introducing his works at important exhibitions, like Istanbul Biennale, Quadrennial for Contemporary Art Copenhagen, Tanas Berlin, Artists Space New York, etc.
Jakup Ferri has been a brilliant novelty in the Kosovar contemporary art. A career starting with videos and performances, to continue with another atypical journey, concentrating on naive art and outsider artists’ history.
Anyway, besides all these mutations, if we observe Ferri’s work carefully, we always discover the same traces. The auto-irony and his wish to play on the opposite side of the ordinary stereotypes intermingle with the poetry process. Being a worshipper of the naive artists, for him is a liberation from bureaucratic framework and conventional production.
This is the first exhibition, in which Jakup Ferri introduces this series, and also the first time when his figurative art surrenders to Jip’s designs. And Sol Lewitt should pardon us, if Jip does not try to copy him at all, as he is freer, more natural and  beautiful”.
Fani Zguro,  Berlin, June 2021

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Njerez rruge | Street people

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Street people

[..] unë i pari kam pritur cdo moment të tillë me një lloj kurioziteti sikur doja të tregoja dicka që nuk e tregoja dot me fjalë. Të gjitha skenat në këtë seri vijnë nga rruga. Personazhet janë njerëz, të cilët vazhdojnë jetën e tyre. Nuk kam dashur kurrë t’i njoh apo t’i ndikoj për fotografinë time,i kam kaluar afër dhe jam përpjekur të fotografoj gjendjen në të cilën ishin dhe absurdin që shkaktonin. Absurd dua ta quaj dhe kërkimin tim, i cili më ka kushtuar shumë ditë nga jeta ime, e gjitha kjo për të kërkuar një lëvizje apo qëndrim elegant të njerëzve të rrugës,i quaj njerëzit e rrugës sikur të ishte njëspecie e vecantë, por jo. Për mua njerëzit e rrugës jane njerëzit që presin që të ndodhë dicka dhe ndoshta kjo pritje është pasuria e tyre.” 

[…] I, myself,  have waited for such a momentum with some kind of curiosity, as if to show the things I could not express in words, otherwise. In this collection,  all scenes come from the street. Characters continue to live their lives as humans. I have never wanted to get to know or influence them through my photography. I have passed by, trying to photograph the state they were in and the absurd they aroused. Absurd, is also the word that I  would  like to call my search , because  it took too many days of my life. All this time, waiting  to catch  a movement or a graceful attitude of street people. I call them street people, as if they constitute a particular species.  Anyway, no. For me, street people are those who wait for  something to happen and, maybe, their expectancy is their only asset”

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#Ergys Zhabjaku (1984, Shkodër) është fotograf profesionist me studio në Tiranë. Ai është diplomuar në Akademinë e Arteve në Tiranë në Skenografi e Kostumografi. Më pas ka studiuar ne Instituti i Antropologjisë Kulturore dhe Studimit të Artit ne degën Etnologji-Folklore. Ndonëse mediumi i tij kryesor është fotografia, aktiviteti i tij si artist përfshin pikturë, grafikë etj. Ergys Zhabjaku është gjithashtu pedagog në UET.

#Ergys Zhabjaku (1984, Shkoder, Albania) is a professional photographer based in Tirana, Albania. He was graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, in Set Designer and Costume Designer Department and has finished the second level of studies at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Art Studies, in Ethnology-Folklore branch. He has always exercised photography as medium for his projects. His work encompasses painting, graphics, and mainly photography. Actually he is professor at the European University of Tirana.

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Petra Rintelen | Discovering meaning owing to beauty

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Petra Rintelen

The trial, 2020 - Contact For Price

Petra Rintelen

Nocturne with Fox, 2020 - Contact For Price

“Quite normal things and pieces of scenery were concerted in ever changing compositions, ordered in tonal values, in a sometimes semi-dark room, that is ruminant, aesthetical, without further perspective statement.”

Petra Rintelen – Discovering meaning owing to beauty 

The still-lifes of  Petra Rintelen show fruits, animals, flowers, skulls, dishes, vases and other objects. Since centuries this genre exists, like in the paintings by Georg Flegel up to Otto Scholderer. The well-arranged compositions presented seashells, beetles and food in a light corner, an exclusive part of daylife, decorating the dining-room, masterly executed, arresting attention. The paintings of Petra Rintelen arise from some other mind-set. Quite normal things and pieces of scenery were concerted in ever changing compositions, ordered in tonal values, in a sometimes semi-dark room, that is ruminant, aesthetical, without further perspective statement. Often her settings are apparently visited, used or observed, by a fox, a magpie or a band of lemurs. So the paintings achieve another dimension, like a poem, in order to win this absoluteness, the essence. Through cutting the objects, unclear conditions of space and cause, she is leading the spectator beyond sensual perception. In moving the objects or the protagonists away from the chaining middles of the canvas, she is creating a consciousness for the perpetual „over“. By the slipping away of all ephemeral, she discovers meaning owing to beauty, lays open the deceiving appearance and the vanity of life. We will already find Jean Baptiste Siméon Chardin discreetly entering this intellectual dimension, who captured in his still-lifes the objects in the charm of light and colour for the following generations up to Petra Rintelen. But, rarely another follower succeeded like her in creating such a metamorphosis to construe existence, such perceptible, pure and vivid sense beyond her motif.

Dr. Friedhelm Häring Art Historian / Director at Oberhessisches Museum 1978 - 2012

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Petra Rintelen graduated at the Academy of Fine Arts Enschede in the Netherlands in 1997. On the late 90‘s Rintelen turned to surrealistic motifs . Over the last 20 years Rintelen created a quite individual world of expression based on a painting space that is strongly restricted, where she deals with rather cryptic, apparently symbolical scenes. The artist often applies still-life as a stage for various animals of sometimes traditionally meaningful character.

Petra Rintelen in Tiergarten-Schönbrunn-Wien2

Petra-in-her-studio

EXHIBITIONS HISTORY

Selection of recent exhibitions:

2020 Kunstmuseum Gerhardt-von-Reutern-Haus, Willingshausen (groupshow)

2020 Kunstverein Werkstatt, Gelsenkirchen

2018 ARTHUS Galerie, Zell a. H.

2018 Discovery Art Fair, ARTHUS Galerie, Frankfurt a. M. (art fair) 2018 Hilbert Raum, Berlin

2017 artfein gallery, Berlin

2016 Berliner Liste Art Fair, artfein gallery (art fair)

2016 Gallery Weekend, artfein gallery, Berlin

2015 Contemporary Art Ruhr, artfein gallery (art fair)

DIE, KUNST – UND WUNDERKAMMERN“ DER PETRA RINTELEN (throwback reviews)

“Petra Rintelen’s still lifes do not make a metaphorical reference to moral values, but rather reify the plot and its “actors” in a significant prop. In a pointed way, the artist combines the emblematic reference function of early Baroque still lifes with the tendencies towards the “fetishization” of the object that have been observed since the beginning of the 19th century, which regard the inanimate object as a significant relic of an individual or a group.” extract Prof. Klaus Hammer

Petra-in-her-studio

Exhibition „Exiters and Enterers“ 2020 : Martin Stommel, Petra Rintelen, Dr. Friedhelm Härin

In conversation with Petra

G70 Did you dream to become an artist as a child ?

PR -As a child I always painted, I even remember some impressions of me sitting in the kindergarden painting at a table. I yet remember the smell of the pencils. Well I believe what I wanted to become was painter or researcher.

G70 Who or what inspired you to be an artist ?

PR -Nature! And my grandfather, because he always taught me to see the plants, the animals, to learn about nature and to observe.

 

G70 I get a theatrical feeling looking at your artworks. How do you create this very special atmosphere?

PR – I think it has a lot to do with the conduct of the light, and actually I often create a set of things on a table or elsewhere and try a lot in which corner of the studio I get the best illumination by the daylight, the most intimate or slightly dramatic light. That depends on my motif and how I want to make this little „stage“.

Detail from Fantastical Find

Flamingo Feather

G70 How do you think Covid has impacted your work ?

PR Well to be honest, I couldn‘t say that Covid really changed my working. In my work I‘m in my work. It changed rather the circumstances of life generally, to meet rather few people, to see my exhibition shut down prematurely, not to embrace people. But I take this virus quite seriously and I wish this disease on nobody, myself included.