Visual Artist · Albania
Oil pastel on paper, and figurative oil. Churches, kulla towers and the figures of Albanian legend — drawn where they stand.
Chapter 01 5 works
Kulla — the fortified stone houses of the northern highlands, built for a family and for a siege.
Therefore, when we build, let us think that we build for ever.
Chapter 02 15 works
Town houses, streets and bridges of the Ottoman centuries — Berat, Krujë, Gjirokastër. Buildings still lived in, drawn as they stand.
I should paint my own places best; painting is with me but another word for feeling.
Chapter 03 16 works
Villages, water and mountain light across the seasons.
It seems to me, when I see nature, that I see it ready-made, completely written — but then, try to do it!
Chapter 04 19 works
Churches and monasteries set into mountain rock — Berat, Përmet, Korçë, Theth, Prishtinë — and the silence kept inside them.
I'd like to paint men or women with that je ne sais quoi of the eternal, of which the halo used to be the symbol.
I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland.
Chapter 05 33 works
The studio, the figure, and Albanian myth read through the classical — Rozafa, Kostandini, Penelopa.
The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows.
Work rooted in
Albanian light,
stone, and memory.
Ols Plasa works in oil pastel on paper and in figurative oil. The subjects are
architectural and they are not: churches set into mountain rock, kulla towers
holding centuries of silence, figures pulled out of Albanian legend. He paints
the places he is from, on the ground where they stand.
Based in Albania.
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