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Artist Statement:
Toni Milaqi
(contemporary artist ;
albania, greece)
When you want to fly, but you
have no wings; when you want
to give a great punch in the
stomach of the authority, and
you can't; when you want to
change the world, but the only
thing you do is to observe how
prosaically utopian is this;
when the coldly nights of
winter, in a deep blue sky,
you want to pee the Moon, and
all you finally succeed is to
make your self wet; when the
dross of the socials and
moralities have surrounded
you:
“The only thing you can do is
to desire to swallow the sun,
and to try, even if this seems
unthinkable, to register the
billions of its colors. This
titanic act, which goes many
times over the limits; which
eats and burns the dust of
prosaism, and fill your life
with a great energy and lust
for the exploring of this
world, and uncountable
combinations of colors, is
that which can escape you to a
heavenly world. And is so
beautiful there! ”
I love being a painter, even
that moment, when I feel
how fatal is to meet reality
through this filter. ...
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Toni Milaqi
Contemporary artist (painter, draughtsman)
1974 Born in Tirana, Albania, from greek parents.
Studies:
1988 Artistic High School "Jordan Misja", Tirana, Albania/ graduate in Painting, Drawing & Graphics.
1992 "National Academy of Fine Arts", Tirana, Albania/ Monumental Painting Section.
Solo Exhibitions :
Jan 1996 Dimokritos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Feb 1999 Astrolavos Gallery, Piraeus, Greece.
Selected Group Exhibitions :
Jun 1996 Dimokritos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Feb 1997 Arieta Gallery (Plaka), Athens, Greece.
Apr 1999 Astrolavos Gallery, Athens, Greece.
Apr 1999 "Minus-Plus", Hellenic American Union, curated by Manos Stefanidis and Nadja Argyropoulou, Athens, Greece.
May 2004 "Colours of Albania", National Gallery of Arts, curated by Edi Muka, Tirana, Albania.
Nov 2007 "Pa(varesia)", National Gallery of Arts, curated by Elsa Martini, Tirana, Albania.
Dec 2008 "CheapArt 14", CheapArt Gallery, curated by George and Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Athens, Greece.
Jun 2009 "CheapArt -Thessaloniki", Kodra former Army Camp, curated by George and Dimitris Georgakopoulos, Afrodite Oikonomidou and Delia Gianti, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Residencies:
Aug 2008 Artist in Residence, International Open Art Residency 2008, curated and organised by Charalambos Dermatis and George Georgakopoulos, Eretria, Greece.
Toni Milaqi lives and creates in Athens, Greece.
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