The exhibition "Phenomenology of contemporary archetypal image" brings together 10 artists of contemporary art between Albania and Austria

Paintings, installations, photographs and sculptures are part of the contemporary art exhibition "Phenomenology of the contemporary archetypal image". The exhibition in the lobby of the National Historical Museum is curated by Ph. D. Oltsen Gripshi and brings together the ten most vocal artists of contemporary art between Albania and Austria, where the language of visual art with which they present themselves to the Albanian public is as diverse in terms of the techniques used as it is comprehensive in terms of the topics covered. . The Albania-Austria contemporary art exhibition entitled "Phenomenology of the contemporary archetypal image", curated by the art historian and critic Ph.D. Oltsen Gripshi presents the works of artists Admir Përvathi, Adriana Marku-Sedaj, Christian Strassegger, Dastid Miluka, Elisabeth Gschiel, Gilbert Kleissner, Helidon Haliti, Michaela Knittelfelder-Lang, Naim Spahiu and Peter Wagner. Curator Oltsen Gripshi shows that this exhibition seeks to convey multiple messages to the public and states that never before has the relationship between man and nature become a central (absolute) issue, both in scientific debates and in aesthetic-artistic ones in creativity. of artists. "More and more often, in accordance with the sense of belonging to the current, present, contemporary era, artists base their artistic and philosophical-conceptual research on the discovery of the relationship between man and nature. A combination of notions and worldviews, man and nature, which has always fascinated anthropologists, biologists, naturalists and art researchers interested in understanding this strange but essential connection, which very often turns into a conflict between them!",

The relationship between art and nature

Curator Oltsen Gripshi, following his curatorial text, states that where a reflection on the human being opens, art always comes into play, as a dimension through which the human being is separated from reality, sailing the shores of imagination. Thus, the individual artist, or the individual artist, follows the Ph. D. Gripshi tries to address the key issues of his time, with the tools and language he possesses. "However, it would be a mistake to think that art is only now beginning to deal with the natural world, with the inherent essence of its very existence, establishing it as an artistic object. On the contrary, it can be said that since its inception there has always been a very close relationship between art and nature", he says, adding that it is a relationship, that has gradually taken shape more and more throughout the history of art. The curator of the exhibition continues that with the establishment of conceptual art and therefore land art, the artist's attention was focused on nature, raising it to a higher level. Ph. D. Gripshi says that nature is no longer seen or perceived as complementary to the artistic realization in itself, but as the central subject of the content of the works of art, as a flow of reflection on the human being, an inevitable and inseparable part of nature. "In this worldview, the phenomenology of the image is that situation in which a well-defined object such as a photograph evokes sensations, emotions, humor and reactions that go beyond the constituent matter of the object", he says.