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Edi Hila (Paperback)
Eric De Chassey, Edi Hila, Joanna Mytkowska, Kathrin Rhomberg, Erzen Shkololli
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This catalog accompanies Edi Hila: Painter of Transformation, the
first retrospective exhibition devoted to the Albanian painter Edi
Hila, considered one of the last masters from Eastern Europe.
Through Hila’s eyes, the Eastern European experience is stripped
of accident or adventure and instead gives weight to distilled
general truths. The catalog traces key moments from his formative
artistic experience, including a firsthand account of his infamous
1972 painting, Planting of Trees, which because of its unusual use
of color and form that ran contrary to approved socialist realist
doctrine, led to his being forced to labor in a poultry processing
plant. In the evenings, however, he secretly created a series of
drawings documenting the life of the workers, which became the
Poultry series, harrowing in its raw realism. The publication
continues to track Hila’s practice through the 1990s, when we
find the artist carefully observing life after the fall of Enver
Hoxha’s regime and his attempts at depicting the realities of the
Albanian transformation on the precipice of the new millennium,
before concluding with a review of Hila’s contemporaneous
practice, which discloses more the limitations and traps of
transformation than its promises. Richly illustrated with
reproductions of Hila’s work in full color, many of them never
before published, this is a groundbreaking catalog, one that will
help establish Hila’s international reputation as a master
painter of the region and Europe at large.
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