ORION SHIMA
About
“My research in art is a sort of archeology of memories and scars, timeless and spaceless. Painting to me is like exploring inside the mind, without restrictions while searching for the images. What matters most in my paintings is the image itself, especially its process of manifestation. Initially perceived in a purely aesthetic aspect, these images intensify and exhibit their leading subjects. I use the images as if I were a storyteller where every image comes out as a statement of my life producing color and silent melancholia. My works speak for the moment, before or after the moment of act. An image for me can only tell a part of itself pushing us towards multiple interpretations and to me this is a quite interesting challenge because it enables to paint an authentic image. Sometimes I believe that my paintings inhale memories and desires creating real images that must somewhere exist.”
Orion Shima’s is born in 1969 Tirana, Albania where graduated in 1993 from the Arts Academy, Painting Department. He has an exiting track record of collective and solo exhibitions, in Albania, Italy, Greece, Germany, USA etc.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 IN Paper and Plex / Gallery 70 / TR / ALBANIA
2019 Between Darkness and Light / Gallery70 / TR / ALBANIA
2014 Casa Mantegna ,Mantova –Italy
2012 Counter-landscape /National Gallery of Arts,Tirana
2005 Dusk/Zero Gallery /Tirana
2002 Bireality/National Gallery of Arts, Tirana
2000 Informal sensibility /XXI Gallery/Tirana
2000 Private Gallery /Bielefeld , Germany
1999 Nostalgia /XXI Gallery/Tirana
1997 Amimony Gallery/Ioannina,Greece
1995 Abstract/National Gallery of Arts,Tirana
1994 Angels/Amimony Gallery/Ioannina, Greece
Exhibition

Group Exhibition – IN paper and plex
November 26 > 7 January, 2020

Between Darkness and Light
January 24 > March 31, 2019

Survival of the images
Mantova – Casa del Mantegna
31 October > 14 Dicember 2014
Works
Publications

Catalogue 2012
Published by GKA
March 2012
ISBN: 978-99943-977-3-0

Survival of the immages
Published by: Publi Paolini
December 2014
ISBN 978-88-95490-81-6
Orion Shima’s inteview during the vernissage at Gallery 70
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