The drawings relate to an intimate conversation with his mother about his childhood fascination for butterflies and moths, and his particular sensibility towards natural wonders.
Image Unavailable Image not available for Color: More than 5 minutes. The second part of the exhibition presents a large-scale site-specific installation composed of a group of twelve school desks and several steel sculptures that occupy the entire volume of the gallery.
Share your thoughts with other customers. The book became an essential part of their cultural identity and each generation would pass it on to the next one. Get this app Please sign in before purchasing Why? The green surface of the desks and the wooden benches were covered with thousands of drawings, inscriptions, carvings and scribbles left by several generations of school kids.
Amazon Appstore Return Policy. At the time the oppression of the ethnic Albanian population of Kosovo by the Serbian Government was reaching its peak. May 24, Latest Developer Update: Be the first to review this item. Amazon Restaurants Food delivery from local restaurants. Shopbop Designer Fashion Brands. English Choose a language for shopping. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. A moth sculpture and a series of butterflies drawings are currently on view at kamel mennour gallery in London.
They are symbols of love, animals, names, human figures, body parts or other common stylized designs. Learn more about Amazon Prime. Get fast, free shipping with Amazon Prime. The artist discovered the old desks for the first time in while filming the demolishing of the building of the school in favour of a new and more modern one.
His unique, and sometimes irreverent, way to playfully confront the essence of reality results into a deep reflection on memory, freedom, cultural identity and life discoveries.
Your recently viewed items and featured recommendations. Withoutabox Submit to Film Festivals. By reproducing and enlarging these drawings in his sculptures Halilaj preserves and celebrates this unauthorised, but yet extremely precious and genuine, visual representation of the local reality that surrounded the children of his community.
Redeem a gift card or promotion code. Surprisingly many of the drawings in the book have a resonance with the artist life and practice.
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