{"id":3314,"date":"2022-06-24T07:59:58","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T07:59:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/weartprojects.com\/?page_id=3314"},"modified":"2023-05-19T18:21:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:21:36","slug":"adrian-paci","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/adrian-paci\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Paci"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Adrian Paci was born in Shkod\u00ebr, Albania, in 1969. From 1987 to 1991 he attended the Akademia e Arteve in Tirana. He lectured in art history and aesthetics in Shkod\u00ebr from 1995 until 1997, at which time he left his home country for Milan, escaping the violence of the armed uprising that roiled Albania that year. Paci\u2019s position as an exile holds a central place in his oeuvre. His work frequently addresses themes of geographical separation, nostalgia, and memory, and conveys a keen sense of the mutability of life and art.
Paci is known primarily for his work in performance and video, although he explores similar subjects in painting, photography, and sculpture.
Characterized by a fluid interplay between performance and body art, his videos frequently focus on quotidian existence and feature members of his own family. Though physically separated in life and in art, the family becomes unified through tradition and a shared language. In several of his videos, Paci uses his body to create poignant statements about loss\u2014whether by crawling across the floor with a roof tied to his back (Home to Go, 2001), or by staging his own funeral with the help of a professional mourner (In Vajtojca, 2002).
While his work centers on his own identity and personal history, it nevertheless actively engages its audience, challenging viewers\u2019 limited perceptions of reality.
In 1999 Paci was among the first Albanian artists to represent their country at the Venice Biennale. His first major solo exhibition took place the following year at MoMA PS1 in New York. That same year, he had a solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and his work was featured again at the Venice Biennale. In 2009 his work appeared in the group exhibition The Storytellers at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Since 2003 he has been a lecturer in visual arts at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo and the Universit\u00e0 IUAV in Venice. Paci currently resides and works in Milan.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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Adrian Paci was born in Shkod\u00ebr, Albania, in 1969. From 1987 to 1991 he attended the Akademia e Arteve in Tirana. He lectured in art history and aesthetics in Shkod\u00ebr from 1995 until 1997, at which time he left his home country for Milan, escaping the violence of the armed uprising that roiled Albania that year. Paci\u2019s position as an exile holds a central place in his oeuvre. His work frequently addresses themes of geographical separation, nostalgia, and memory, and conveys a keen sense of the mutability of life and art.
Paci is known primarily for his work in performance and video, although he explores similar subjects in painting, photography, and sculpture.
Characterized by a fluid interplay between performance and body art, his videos frequently focus on quotidian existence and feature members of his own family. Though physically separated in life and in art, the family becomes unified through tradition and a shared language. In several of his videos, Paci uses his body to create poignant statements about loss\u2014whether by crawling across the floor with a roof tied to his back (Home to Go, 2001), or by staging his own funeral with the help of a professional mourner (In Vajtojca, 2002).
While his work centers on his own identity and personal history, it nevertheless actively engages its audience, challenging viewers\u2019 limited perceptions of reality.
In 1999 Paci was among the first Albanian artists to represent their country at the Venice Biennale. His first major solo exhibition took place the following year at MoMA PS1 in New York. That same year, he had a solo exhibition at the Moderna Museet in Stockholm and his work was featured again at the Venice Biennale. In 2009 his work appeared in the group exhibition The Storytellers at the Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. Since 2003 he has been a lecturer in visual arts at the Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti in Bergamo and the Universit\u00e0 IUAV in Venice. Paci currently resides and works in Milan.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Adrian Paci Adrian Paci \u00e8 nato a Scutari, in Albania, nel 1969. Dal 1987 al 1991 ha frequentato l’Akademia e Arteve di Tirana. Ha insegnato storia dell’arte ed estetica a Scutari dal 1995 al 1997, anno in cui ha lasciato il suo Paese per Milano, sfuggendo alla violenza della rivolta armata che ha sconvolto l’Albania […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2660,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3314","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3314"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3314\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14828,"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3314\/revisions\/14828"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/weartprojects.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}