Anri Sala

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Anri Sala at MACBA Barcelona
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Anri Sala

1974 (1974)
Nationality Albanian

Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video.

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Life and career

Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing. He lives and works in Paris.

Sala's video installation Dammi i colori ("Give me the colors") was on display at Tate Modern in London. The installation reflects on the transformation of Tirana in 2003 by means of colors. The installation includes a conversation with Tirana's mayor, Edi Rama, a personal friend of the artist's and the force behind this transformation. Sala will participate in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012). [1]

Answer Me (2008) was filmed in a Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome in Berlin, a former NSA surveillance tower, which was constructed on the Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain). [2]

He represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2013.

Sala presented Le Clash (2010), Tlatelolco Clash (2011) and Doldrum (2014) as a mixed installation in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and in November 2014 he won the Vincent Award.

He is in a relationship with Rosario, Princess of Preslav. [3] [4]

Short films

1999

1998

Recognition and awards

Essential bibliography

See also

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References

  1. "ROUNDTABLE announces participants".
  2. Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight, May 6 - June 20, 2009 Archived March 25, 2016, at the Wayback Machine Marian Goodman, New York.
  3. "Íntima de Mette-Marit y Paltrow: Rosario Nadal, los 50 años de la dama más enigmática". 22 October 2018.
  4. "Los Cortina, Rosario Nadal y Miriam Ungría, ¿'víctimas' del Brexit? - Informalia.es".
  5. Anri Sala Marian Goodman Gallery.