Mire ne qe na ruan Polici, por Policin kush e ruan?
Tuesday, Jan 23, 2007
Posted on Sat, Jan. 20, 2007
BEHIND THE SCENES/ARTS & ENTERTAINMENT IN SOUTH FLORIDA
Miami's Albanian connection
ALEX QUESADA
'THE CREATION': The cast includes Jeff Koegh, standing, Valerie Stanford and Meshaun Labrone Arnold.
From South Beach to the Balkans, people in the contemporary art world have heard about Bonnie Clearwater, the executive director and chief curator of North Miami's Museum of Contemporary Art. Clearwater's latest fan is the vice director of Albania's National Gallery of Arts, Rubens Shima, who invited Clearwater to curate Albania's first ever pavilion in the Venice Biennale, an annual art fair that showcases works by artists from around the globe.
How did a museum director from North Miami end up curating a show that will represent a nation more than 5,500 miles away? It turns out that a MOCA docent, Amona Berman, is the mother of the American ambassador to Albania, Marcie Reis.
Reis recommended Clearwater to Shima, who also is commissioner for the Albanian pavilion at the Venice Biennale.
''I thought that this would be an amazing thing to do, to work with artists who for the last 16 years are just having the opportunity to experiment,'' Clearwater says, ``because under communism they were very much restricted to the social realism. Even their established masters are in a period of exploration right now, which is very exciting.''
Though the project is not related to her work at MOCA, Clearwater says she hopes the experience will allow her to develop relationships and a dialogue with Albania's contemporary art world, which would benefit the North Miami museum. ''It's good for me as a curator and art historian, being exposed to another type of art world, another mind-set, another approach,'' she says. ``There are a lot of artists I will be watching and staying in touch with and developing continuing relationships with.''-- DANIEL CHANG
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Just to inform you: the Albanian Pavilion in Venice Biennal of 2007 is not the first one in the history!!!. The first pavilion that rappresent in official way Albania in Venice Biennal was in 2005 with Sislej Xhafa, the pavilion was in front of the enter at Biennale. Please stop with wrong politicant information. Is impossible have a national pavilion in Biennal if it is not official!!!!!!!
51st International Art Exhibition
The Experience of Art - Always a Little Further
The 51st International Art Exhibition, organized by the Fondazione la Biennale di Venezia and directed by María de Corral and by Rosa Martínez, will open to the public on Sunday, June 12, 2005.
The National Participations register the largest number of participants in the history of the Biennale: seventy countries will present 31 exhibitions in the pavilions in the Giardini della Biennale and 42 in many other venues in Venice, to involve the entire city. A positive sign that confirms the excellent level of quality and the profoundly international character of the Venetian exhibition, perceived as a crossroads and a legacy of the entire world. Many countries are participating in the Art Biennale for the first time, including Afghanistan, Albania, Morocco, the Republic of Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan.
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