Eltjon Valle | |
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| Born | 1984 |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Occupation | Artist |
Eltjon Valle (born 1984 in Qyteti Stalin, Albania), is an artist. He lives and works in Milan. [1]
Eltjon Valle | |
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| Born | 1984 |
| Nationality | Albanian |
| Occupation | Artist |
Eltjon Valle (born 1984 in Qyteti Stalin, Albania), is an artist. He lives and works in Milan. [1]
Since the early 2000s when he moved to study art, at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera. [2] He finished his bachelor's degree in 2007, and a master's degree in fine arts in 2009. In Milan he became one of the best known artists of his generation, since he was a student. His medium was oil, and he's been using it in his although naturalistic representation. Thanks to his architectural landscapes, his portraits and his site specific interventions, he is one of the actually active artists living in this city.
The beginnings of Valle as a painter, belong to his hometown, which under the communism was an industrial basement of petrol. This element, oil, is the first one that Valle started painting with, during his early childhood. Valle has kept it on by then, as a common denominator to some of his most important series of paintings. Such as the series of the cursed writers of the 20th century (started in 2006).
Or the series of flowers (2012). Or the series of the homages he pays to fashion.
One of his most representative series of works are the "land pieces", actually pieces of polluted land he collects in the country of Marinz (Al), and engraces with butterflies.
Petrol is one of the main factors of global changes that regard development and pollution, and Valle through his paintings and other types of work, keeps investigating the negative and 'positive' effect of this exploitation on the everyday life, and its consequences on the living and perception of modern landscape. He has participated to some collectives and also to some personal exhibitions.
The main project of Valle in this context is the Marinz Project. [2] [3] [4] This is a site specific based one. Marinz is a small country close to that industrial city where Valle grew. In the uncontaminated communist Albania, it was the polluted exclusion. Since the year 2012 the artist has been painting polluted flowers of Marinz, while taking its land pieces to transform them into art works, by drying and adorning them, acclimating and taming them, making them so to say, domestic. [3] Valle seems to sustain that everything is nature, even pollution. That's why, he tries to witness that a new beauty appeared in our time, the polluted one.
Some of his main exhibitions have been:
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