This Sunday will be free entrance to the National Gallery of Arts for the exhibit of works returned to its fund. The exhibition has no curator but is simply called “Turned Works”, followed by a long history of their collection process until this exhibition. Based on the Prime Minister’s Office, the Parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and almost every public institution in 2014 gave a balance of about 160 works distributed before the 1990s. The Gallery has been able to collect only 66 artists’ works from the institutions, which they exhibited for the first time after their treatment at the GKA laboratory
This Sunday will be free entrance to the National Gallery of Arts for the exhibit of works returned to its fund. The exhibition has no curator but is simply called “Turned Works”, followed by a long history of their collection process until this exhibition. Based on the Prime Minister’s Office, the Parliament, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and almost every public institution in 2014 gave a balance of about 160 works distributed before the 1990s. The gallery has been able to collect only 66 artists’ works from the institutions, which were exhibited for the first time after their treatment at the GKA laboratory.
“Almost all the works that returned to GKA were in need of restoration, so they immediately underwent conservation interventions from the restoration laboratory and meeting the standards for their exposure.”
The exhibition will remain open throughout August, as it is about the works of well-known painters who created along the dictatorship, but some of them with the landscaping nature of the lands hold a firm even earlier considered out of propaganda.
There are over 90 artists from Zef Kolomb’s Costumes, Nexhmedin Zajmi, Danish Shepherds, Danish Jukni, “Winter in the Field of Korça”, Vangjush Mio, Fatmir Minga’s “Vase of Flowers”, “Flag Embroidery” Liljana Çefë, Vilson Kilica’s “Quiet Nature”, Kujtim Buzë, Zef Shohi, Guri Madhi, Odise Paskali, Agim Zajmi, Qamil Grezda, Sali Shijaku, Ismail Lulani etc., are some of the returned works , Exposed. There are 45 paintings and 9 sculptures that tell a story a story.
“In order to expose and cure the image, these values lived for many years (some of them since 1981) in some institutions of the Albanian state. The relevant documentation and deadlines were not respected, so many of these works were abandoned for years in warehouses, damaged and left out of any conservation and maintenance standards, while many others disappeared, “said the Gallery’s announcement. This returned work.
“The lack of years in exhibitions and their return to identity prompted us to expose them during this summer season for the Albanian and foreign public. These works are part of the fund, they will be placed in the gallery fund, and as the case may be part of the exhibitions. ”
The search process has not yet been completed according to the gallery specialists. Out of the estimated collection of 190 works, the return can be considered in a small number, saying the rest is already lost. From the Gallery they are informed that they are addressing the state prosecutor’s office, with documentation and list of works where they were placed in institutions and where they are missing. But it is thought that lost works have not crossed the border, assuming they are in the hands of private collectors inside the country. There is still hope for their return, though it is likely that there is no word for passion, not for conscience.
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