Arsim
Kajtazi
THE CHALLENGE OF
ART SURVIVAL
My painting is deep-rooted in
pain, love and hope! This Has been the destiny of the world for
thousands of years!... It tries to reflect messages and not offer
them on the survival of man as individual, ethnic being, and also
as a human being. The message has been and will remain - secrecy, a
puzzle, but also a clear and in the same time captivating truth!
You have to search for it if you want to find it This is what I`ve
been doing too from the beginning to the endless end? You may try
it too? But, I, the one who may say to be their Creator, was unable
to extract from the depth of the sea all the jewels, hidden
somewhere deep in the sea-shells of most various kinds. I don`t
want it to be transparent, illustrative, and when it has focused
the figure of a transformed man in an expressive, surrealist, and
abstract expression, in a compositional-pictorial context there are
signs, symbols, metaphors, metonymic shadows of depths of human
psychology! The painting appears to come out somewhere between
dream and reality, feeding continually from those two worlds that
won?t do without each other ? it is the very universe? and the
creative substratum too is some small part of this universe. Dream,
myth, history- the present-day reality, live together in a
reversible continuity? Therefore, things come out of
the void too- chaos- ashes, a courageous and spontaneous game
feeding on the feeling of freedom and childish innocence, which is
so much wanted by many artists and painters since the birth of the
modern and postmodern art? up to this day? but never turned into a
stereotype habit? or posture? leaving one in repetition and
sterility? With this spontaneous feeling, being more of
intuition, continued wish, also colorist contrasts are shaped,
harmonic nuances, and compositional relations on the basis of an
idea which has never been uttered in full as it seems to define the
ambiguity of modern painting as its uncontestable value, in order
to have an opportunity of survival through various space and times!
perhaps till eternity! Eternity remains a wish-hope, if there
is eternity!?...
( 2005)
BIOGRAPHY
Arsim Kajtazi was born on
February 25th 1958 in Vitak, Kosova
1976- He completed Gymnasium
in Prishtina.
1976-1977 He began studies of
Albanian Literature and Language at the Faculty of Philosophy of
Prishtina University.
1982- He graduates at the
University of Prishtina.
1982- 1993 He works as a
journalist of Kosova weekly- Zëri.
1985-1987 He visits the
Academy of Arts of Prishtina and after establishing contacts with
its professors he extends his knowledge of painting and
graphics.
1987- He becomes member of
Association of Fine Arts Artists of Kosova.
Kajtazi has been involved in
literature, journalism, literary and art criticism, etc.
He has published the
following books:
1985 - "Prani
rrezore" ("A Radiating Presence", poetry,
"Rilindja", Prishtina,
1990 - "Shakullina"
("Whirlwind"), a novel, "Rilindja",
Prishtina,
1993 - "Të vdekurit
vallëzojnë" ("The Dead are Dancing"), Writers
- Association of Kosova,
1997 - "Klithmë
paqësore" ("A Peaceful Call"), poetry written in
Germany, author` s publication,
1999 - "Duke Krijuar
vetveten" ("Creating Oneself"), poetry,
"Rilindja" Prishtina,
2005- "Nëntë lëkurët e
gjarprit" ("Nine Snake Skins"), a novel, "Faik
Konica", Prishtina,
He is member of Writers
"Association of Kosova".
1993 - Since this year he has
been living in Germany...
Collective Exhibitions:
1987 - Youth Salon - Youth
Art Gallery, Prishtina,
1989 - Youth Salon - Youth
Art Gallery, Prishtina,
1989 - 16th Spring
Salon - Prishtina Art Gallery,
1990 - 17th Spring
Salon - Prishtina Art Gallery,
1991 - 18th Spring
Salon - Prishtina Art Gallery,
1991 - 9th Drawing
Biennial of Kosova - Prishtina Art Gallery,
1992 - Autumn Exhibition of
Fine Arts Association of Kosova,
1993 - 10th
Drawing Biennial of Kosova - Prishtina Art Gallery,
2003 - "Viermal
Osteuropa" ("Four Times Southeastern Europe") -
"Kultur im Kreis" Kreisverwaltung - Bad
Dürkheim
2004 - 25 years - a
Jubilee Exhibition - Kunstverein Bad Dürkheim (Association of Bad
Dürkheim artists).
2005 - Galerie Molenhof
- Netherland
2006 - Galerie Molenhof
- Netherland
2006 - Galerie De
Sigarenfabriek - Netherland/ Delft
Individual Exhibitions:
1994 - "La petite
Galerie, Heddesheim,
1994 - Stadtsparkasse
Neustadt/Weinstraße,
1994 -
"Eichhaus", Bad Dürkheim,
1995 - "Galerie
Camue" - Haus der Finanzen, Grünstadt,
1996 - "Eichhaus" -
Bad Dürkheim,
1999 - "Galerie
Eischenbach" , Schkölen,
1999 - "Schloss
Christianburg", Eisenberg,
1999 -
"Volkshochschule" , Neustadt/Weinstraße,
1999 - Rathaus Mutterstadt,
GVHS - Galerie,
2000 - "Immer
grün", Jena,
2001- Dorfgemeinschaftshaus,
Birkenheide
Titles
of Works:
Gallery - Acryl
1. March, 1994, 25X35
cm, acryl on paper,
2. A Soul physiognomy,
2004, 23X36 cm, acryl on paper
3. In Search of Peace,
2004, 30X42 cm, acryl on paper
4. Dancing, 2003,
30X42 cm, acryl on paper
5. Toreador, 2004,
30X42 cm, acryl on paper
6. Embodiment of Love,
2005, 69X100cm, acryl on canvas
Gallery -
Aquarelle
1. Third Eye,1998,
24X33 cm, aquarelle on paper
2. A Village
House, 2005, 30X40 cm, aquarelle on paper
3. Spring Freshness,
2005, 30X40 cm, aquarelle on paper
4. Enigmatic Face,
2005, 30X40 cm, aquarelle on paper
5. A Red Memory, 2005,
30X40 cm, aquarelle on paper
6. Janus, 1998,
24X33cm, aquarelle on paper
7. Spring Friendship,
2005, 30X40 cm, aquarelle on paper
Gallery -
Oil
1. Hot Summer,
1998, 45X58 cm, oil on canvass,
2. Eternal Longing,
2000, 100X150cm, oil on canvass
3. Bridge of Sighs,
1998, 39X79 cm, oil on canvass
4. Phoenix, 1996,
116X126 cm, oil on canvass
5. Great Breaking,
2002, 60X80cm, oil on canvass
6. Ethnographic
Recollection, 2003, 30X50cm, oil on canvass
7. Vision, 1998,
46X60cm, oil on canvass
Gallery - Combined
Technique
1. Escape from
Dreams, 1988, 58X83 cm, ink, pastel, aquarelle on
paper
2. Friendship, 2005,
73X95 cm, oil acryl, on canavass
3. Secrecy (I) ,
2001, 67X98 cm, snail house, oil, wood on canvass
4. Metaphoric
portrait, 2004, 26X32 cm, oil, snail shell, metal on
board plate
5. Oriental
longing, 1999, 24X32 cm, ink, aquarelle on
paper
6. Love warmth, 1993,
21X30 cm, ink, pastel, aquarelle on paper,
7. Friendship Street
("Weinstraße"), 2001, 61X74 cm, oil, wood, metal,
snail shell,
NOCTURNO ON
KOSOVA
1. Submission
Beginning,1976, ink on paper
2. Beyond, 1987, ink
on paper
3. Heavenly peace,
1987, a combined technique
4. Vision, 1987, ink
on paper
5. Life or Death,
1994, a combined technique on paper
6. Century
Cries, a combined technique
7. Bleeding Freedom,
1998-1999, a combined technique on paper
8. Freedom Yearning,
1987, a combined technique on paper
9. Wall Eruption,
1987, a combined technique on paper
10. The Likoshan
Massacre, 1997, a combined technique on paper
11. The Burnt Soil,
1998, a combined technique on paper
12. Victims of
Freedom, 1998, a combined technique on paper
13. Freedom Victim,
1988, tempera on paper
14. Side by
Side, 1988, pastel, ink on paper,
15. Mountain of Death,
1987, oil on canvass,
16. A Fairy Soul,
1995, ink on paper,
17. A Kosova
Sigh, 2000, 50x70cm, acryl on paper,
18. A Soul Sigh,
1994, oil on paper,
19. Survival on an
Embrace, 1994, oil on paper,
20. Me, 2002, oil on
leather,
21. Peace Eagle,
1987, combined technique,
22. Peace Expectation,
2005, 30X40 cm, combined techniqueon paper
