Launch of Art Exhibition by Ferdinand Koci.
Tuesday
08/06/2010
7pm
Tickets : free
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The launch of an exhibition of art by Roma Artist Ferdinand Koci to celebrate Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month 2010. Plus music by Des Hurley and Chris O’Malley Irish Arts Foundation.
Information about Ferdinand:
I am Roma from Albania. I studied at Art school in Fier and then at the University in Tirana. I have exhibited all over Europe – Albania, Yugoslavia, Italy, Poland, France, Spain and the UK. I won the Beaux Artes competition in Clermont Ferrand in France and now live and work in London.
I lived in a small village in the country in Albania and I used to make images when I was small. I was supposed to be looking after the cow, but I’d get too involved in drawing on bits of paper or shaping things out of clay, that it would wander off. I developed a real passion for art and would draw everything round my home and the village.
I was the first Rom to attend to attend the school of Art in Tirana University. The training was formal and we studied the classical painters as modern influences were not allowed. We didn’t even see the Impressionists until we were in our second year and things were relaxing a little and they allowed a French Exhibition to come to the university.
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The launch of an exhibition of art by Roma Artist Ferdinand Koci to celebrate Gypsy Roma Traveller History Month 2010. Plus music by Des Hurley and Chris O’Malley Irish Arts Foundation.
Information about Ferdinand:
I am Roma from Albania. I studied at Art school in Fier and then at the University in Tirana. I have exhibited all over Europe – Albania, Yugoslavia, Italy, Poland, France, Spain and the UK. I won the Beaux Artes competition in Clermont Ferrand in France and now live and work in London.
I lived in a small village in the country in Albania and I used to make images when I was small. I was supposed to be looking after the cow, but I’d get too involved in drawing on bits of paper or shaping things out of clay, that it would wander off. I developed a real passion for art and would draw everything round my home and the village.
I was the first Rom to attend to attend the school of Art in Tirana University. The training was formal and we studied the classical painters as modern influences were not allowed. We didn’t even see the Impressionists until we were in our second year and things were relaxing a little and they allowed a French Exhibition to come to the university.
