Albanian famous sculptor Arben Bajo came to The Hague specially for the exhibition opening at the Albanian Embassy. H. E. Ambassador Adia Sakiqi organised a joint event together with the celebration of Albanian 103 Independence Anniversary inviting diplomats, officials, medias, artists, business people and members of the Albanian and Dutch society .
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She began her welcome remarks by observing that sculptures are among the best forms of art to reflect societal change. She shared with guests a comment made by Arben Bajo earlier in the day saying that: “When sculpture changes, societies change.” She added: “ These are not one-directional epics sculptures, or glorifying ones. These are sculptures with an enduring human trait and human warmth.”
Arben Bajo‘s sculpture starts its journey in the late 80s. Shaped within the ateliers of the Academy of Arts in Tirana, it ventured to be daringly different during those years when other Albanian art students too were questioning the stereotypical language of socialist realism.
Bajo opened his first exhibition right after his graduation and offered a strong embodiment of his new dynamic. Now, thirty years on, with a long list of personal and collective exhibitions, inside and outside of Albania, Bajo offers different work. Work that has not lost the plastic language in the academic ateliers. Like a personal iconostasis of creation, or even a small -scale museum, one finds in them nudes, portraits, laconic horses, or even sections of unfinished projects touched upon time and again.
In these series the artist takes and re-takes from himself, recycling the forms in a personal metamorphosis of gesture and sigh, maybe in search of a nostalgia and that seems to purposefully ever elude him.
The art exhibition gallery of the Embassy if open for the public for the next few weeks:
Wednesday and Friday from 10 -12 a.m
Tuesday and Thursday from 14 – 16 p.m.
You can also visit the gallery any time by appointments.
For information: http://www.ambasadat.gov.al/netherlands/en
