GRAPHIC EXHIBITION based on the theme I.C.O.N.S.

22 October- 20 November, 2012

Curator: Alket Frashëri

Artists: Peeter Allik (Estonia), Erik Seidel (Germany), Malgorzata Et – Ber Warlikowska (Poland), Franca Bartholomäi (Germany), Majla Zeneli (Albania – Germany), Mikael Kihlman (Sweden), Małgorzata Malwina Niespodziewana (Poland), Agron Mesi (Albania), Alket Frashëri (Albania).

This exhibition was part of both the Tirana Architecture Week activities and of the German October events in Tirana. It offered to Albanian art scene and its public the opportunity to rediscover shared aspects of two important artistic processes which intimately connect the fields of Art & Design: printmaking and free graphic drawing. The exhibition intended to show some works of contemporary printmaking and free graphic drawing to the Albanian public, drawing attention to the embryonic nature of these artistic mediums, to the reflections which linger between yesterday’s and today’s societies.

This exhibition was opened in 2 places, Zeta Gallery – Tirana, Multimedia Art & Design center & gallery “MAD” – Polis University, in close collaboration with Berliner art gallery “Manière Noire”

 

 

Peeter Allik, 1999, linocut technique

 

 

Peeter Allik, 1999, linocut technique

 

Peeter Allik (Estonia) is an artist intensively engaged with controversies not only in his homeland but also with problems seen in a global range. The slogans mostly used in an ironical undertone and often hidden beneath funny allegories attack leaders and servants. Allik is a master of the linocut technique, a plastic matrix engraved with chisels, inked and printed in editions.