Starting November 12, 2009 thru February 28th, 2010 at the Contemporary Museum in Vienna (MUMOK) will open the artistic exhibition "Gender Check" which will be presented also the artistic work of Kosovar famous painter, Muslim Mulliqi.
The organizers of the exhibition are MUMOK and Erste Stiftung Fundation. The exhibition will present the gender position in the society in Eastern Europe since 1960 by including the 30 year period of state communist and the early period of post-communism.
The exhibition tents to demonstrate that at what level the visual representations have contributing in constituting of gender roles in Eastern European states, with emphasis of the changes in gender identity after the fall of communist regimes.
The artistic masterpiece Hamalli of the famous painter from Kosovo, Muslim Mulliqi was selected to participate at this exhibition. This masterpiece was realized in 1967 and its part of Kosovo Art Gallery.
1934-1998
Theworks of Muslim Mulliqi in particular clearly express this urge to "paint" the spiritual and ideological pulsation of time, to "record" visually the ups and downs of national aspirations.
There is a significant overlap between the themes he espoused during the stages of his development with the phases of Kosovo's cultural and political development; actually, Mulliqi's art can be taken as a kind of their visualization. Thus, in the 1950's and 1960's Mulliqi began to paint in the manner of cruel social-realism, which was artistically very powerful but was permeated by the 1970's when Kosovo become equal entity in Yugoslavia and powers close to that of a state, Mulliqi first produced a series of the Albanian towers symbolizing resistance, the feeling of rootedness, only to change the theme and begin to paint a cycle of blue skies, stressing the longing for the elevation of collective aspirations likened to the flight of Icarus.
The organizers of the exhibition are MUMOK and Erste Stiftung Fundation. The exhibition will present the gender position in the society in Eastern Europe since 1960 by including the 30 year period of state communist and the early period of post-communism.
The exhibition tents to demonstrate that at what level the visual representations have contributing in constituting of gender roles in Eastern European states, with emphasis of the changes in gender identity after the fall of communist regimes.
The artistic masterpiece Hamalli of the famous painter from Kosovo, Muslim Mulliqi was selected to participate at this exhibition. This masterpiece was realized in 1967 and its part of Kosovo Art Gallery.
1934-1998
Theworks of Muslim Mulliqi in particular clearly express this urge to "paint" the spiritual and ideological pulsation of time, to "record" visually the ups and downs of national aspirations.
There is a significant overlap between the themes he espoused during the stages of his development with the phases of Kosovo's cultural and political development; actually, Mulliqi's art can be taken as a kind of their visualization. Thus, in the 1950's and 1960's Mulliqi began to paint in the manner of cruel social-realism, which was artistically very powerful but was permeated by the 1970's when Kosovo become equal entity in Yugoslavia and powers close to that of a state, Mulliqi first produced a series of the Albanian towers symbolizing resistance, the feeling of rootedness, only to change the theme and begin to paint a cycle of blue skies, stressing the longing for the elevation of collective aspirations likened to the flight of Icarus.
Only in his last phase, in the 1980's and 1990's, did the artist suffer a kind of a break-down of motivation. However, he made a come-back by returning to pure art and working on intimate and melancholic paintings: simple landscapes and portraits.
These are artistically very powerful reminding of eternity and of incomparable enlightement.
Mulliqi, born in 1934 and died in 1998, is one of the most famous painters of all times in Kosovo.
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