Artist statement
Video art and installation are the techniques that I have stopped and I am experimenting in
different expressions, thoughts feelings and touching. Mechanic movements of objects throughs
electricity gives me an internal satisfaction, I feel the creation of the object from non existing into
existing. The biography and the instinct are my most important columns inside me. I come from
an expressive biography, full of events and features, I come back from time to time and I find old
marks like in a canvas, I return them in the most minimalist way possible. Object with no value,
are the ones are the ones that wake my instinct up through changing them into valuable ones,
maybe not exactly as they used to be but a new face of movements and concepts. Most of my
work I have found in different situations, through working in building houses, through studies,
traveling, shooting movies, meeting other people who poke you emotionally. A lot of this work
contains naivety, courage, press-ion and you go into a new space like a double gravity. the aim of
my concepts is to go exactly where it is thought there is nothing to discover.
Title: Abington
Mediums: Watercolor
Materials: Paper 11 x 14
Styles: Impressionist
Subject: Nature
Elis Gjoni 2020
Extinction, is a cycle that I have been developing for two years where I have the approach to discover about the technique between paints and water paper, during the development I discover some special nuances and perfect or naive lines as is my background. this process of washing the painting after finishing is similar to that of photography, coincidence surprise is the culmination of this painting.
The Artist
Elis Gjoni was born on 1988 in the city of Puka. From his childhood he moved to live in Tirana
Albania, where he finished his studies at Artistic Liceum “Jordan Misja”. After several challenges,
in 2009 begins his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts (today University of the Arts), where he
graduates in 2014 majoring in Atelier e Multimedia-s. During his studies he has had several
artistic experiences, participating in several exhibitions locally and internationally. He has also
been an accomplice in the theater, in short films, workshops, documentaries and television.
Elis Gjoni has developed a fairly authentic language video media and installation in particular,
giving objects that he uses a character that transforms them into subjects that self-confess. He is
one of those young artists that deserve attention, because his first steps are really qualitative.
Currently he lives in the U.S.A.
His website: https://elisgjoni.wixsite.com/website
Elis Gjoni