– Introduction to Speed
Xhimi Hoti’s artistic research focuses on the concepts of space, time and perspective; which are manifested through the emergence on his large canvases of geometric shapes, and the volumes that arise from them, building architectural settings with a strong impact visual and emotional, because it is a reminder of an elsewhere that immediately reveals itself to our gaze. Specifically, it is an elsewhere in time, located in a further dimension than the one in which we find ourselves, and which the artist arrives at through a personal exercise of painting as an experience that is both physical and mental.
The artist followed the same tendency as the Futurists to look resolutely ahead, he creates works that illustrate geometric structures that are certainly solid and concrete, yet at the same time and in the process of becoming, because they are represented by taking into account their possibility to movement on the surface. Direct observation of movement in reality brings the artist while working to prefigure the action of the shapes and lines it constructs, materialising that reciprocal effect which makes each able to influence the other and which expresses itself in absolute dynamism. The gestural character of the backgrounds contributes profoundly to the suggestion of movement as the instinctive and irrational component is always in perfect balance with the rigour of geometric surfaces, in a perfect interpenetration between expressive needs and the potentially antithetical obtained through the consistent use of a chromatic register limited to white, black and greys.
Hoti’s creative process and artistic practice therefore refer stylistically and conceptually to the work of the architect Antonio Sant’Elia, and in particular to the series of tables New Town in which buildings, roads and power stations are built through the intersection of volumes and planes enhanced by extreme perspective expansion. Sant’Elia’s projects represent an ideal and synthetic projection of architectures that belong to a time future, which, not surprisingly, are striking in their ability to evoke the city rather than the future describe it.
Similarly, Xhimi Hoti’s works are the result of a personal power imaginative, of a rapidity of thought and action, which make them inseparable from one another by the speed of the artist himself. Unstoppable and indefatigable in reconceiving that elsewhere that still does not exist, Hoti is the emblem of the ‘energy habit’ that has been the perennial reference of Futurist action. His artistic work seems to adhere perfectly to one of the most incisive points of Marinetti’s First Manifesto of Futurism: “Why should we look at ourselves if we are to break through the mysterious doors of the impossible? Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, for we have already created the eternal speed omnipresent’.
Camilla Compagni
curator
CV
Collective exhibition:
2018 “Exhibition 1.0”, curated by Camilla Compagni, art project Cristina Cuttica at Hotel Trieste, Verona. (Italy)
2018 “Maledetti Albanesi”, curated by Luigi Marastoni and Sebastian Zanetti (2nd edition of the Albanian Culture Festival) at Casa of Mantegna, Mantua (Italy)
2018 “Out Of The Studio”, curated by Giovanna Maroccolo at Neo, Padua.(Italy)
2018 “Combat Prize 2018” Collective exhibition, at the G. Fattori Museum, Livorno. (Italy)
2018 “Passion and vision” Collective exhibition at Galleria Bevilacqua La Masa, San Marco, Venice. (Italy)
2018 “777 in fondo a destra” Collective exhibition curated by La School for Curatorial Studies Venice in collaboration with Venice Art Projects. (Italy)
2018 “Gutenberg Calendar 2018 | Young Artists”, curated by Massimo Bignardi, published Gutenberg Edizioni, at Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome. (Italy)
2017 “FUSION ARTS vol. IV° between the real and the virtual” edited by of the Cultural Association SinergEtica in Puegnago del Garda, Brescia. (Italy)
2017 “IL GUSTO DELL’ALTRO – WORLDS”, curated by Circolo Artistic “Mario Morales” at Palazzo Crepadona, Belluno. (Italy)
2016 “COSTRUIRE IL SENSO – IL SENSO DEL COSTRUIRE”, Collective exhibition curated by Giovanni Iacometti in collaboration with Galleria Isolo17 at the Casa del Mantegna, Mantua. (Italy)
2016 “FIRST STEP” 7th edition curated by Marta Ferretti, Collective exhibition at Isolo17 Gallery, Verona. (Italy)
2016 “SPLASH” curated by Carlo Micheli at Casa di Rigoletto, Mantua. (Italy) 2016 Inauguration STUDIO D’ARTE ALTA TENSIONE , Collective Exhibition, Verona. (Italy)
2015 “RITORNO DA PORTO”, Collective exhibition at the Gallery of the Verona Academy of Fine Arts. (Italy)
2014 “AAV” Anteprima Art Verona, Collective exhibition at Reverse, Verona. (Italy)
2014 “FIRST STEP” 5th edition curated by Vittoria Coen, Collective exhibition at La Giarina Arte Contemporanea, Verona. (Italy)
2014 “FROM THE ADIGE RIVER TO THE MOUTH OF DOURO”, Collective exhibition at Galeria Dos Leões, Oporto. (Portugal)
2014 ”GRIFFIN PRIZE” Collective exhibition, curated by Ivan Quaroni at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan. (Italy)
2014 “Moduli D’arte” ninth edition, Collective exhibition, curated by Lorenza Roverato at Moduli D’arte, Verona. (Italy)
2013 “FIRST STEP” IV edition, Collective exhibition curated by Vittoria Coen, at Galleria dello Scudo, Verona. (Italy)
2013 “Art-opportunity” ,Collective exhibition curated by Alessandra Ruspini at Memoire, Verona. (Italy)
Prizes:
2018 “COMBAT PRIZE 2018” Finalist, at the G. Fattori Museum, Livorno.
2018 “GUTENBERG CALENDAR 2018 Young Artists”,Winner , published by Gutenberg Edizioni, at Centro Luigi di Sarro, Rome.
2017 “Opera 2017 Artist’s residence” Winner ,at the Foundation Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice.
2016 “Engineering Art Project”,Winner of 2nd prize, in Vicenza.
2014 “GRIFFIN PRIZE” Finalist, curated by Ivan Quaroni at Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan.
Personal exhibitions:
2017 Solo exhibition, curated by Jessica Bianchera in collaboration with LaCorniceContemporaryArt, at AXA Assicurazioni, Verona. (Italy)
2016 “DA DOVE ARRIVA IL VENTO” Solo exhibition curated by Marco Brogiotti and Nico Cattapan at Quality Living, Verona. (Italy)
2016 “DIMENSIONE DENSA” solo exhibition, in collaboration with Omar Pizzoli for the project “Augmented reality” and Prof. Arch. Sotirios Papadopoulos, teacher and coordinator of the Desing School ABA” at Unione Collector, Vicenza. (Italy)
2015 “XHIMI HOTI+KARTELL”, curated by Prof. Arch. Sotirios Papadopoulos, teacher and coordinator of the Desing School ABA “at L’Idea Di Amatori M.Luisa, Vicenza. (Italy)
2015 Solo exhibition at Ass.Frame house, Verona. (Italy)
2014 “XHIMI”, Personal exhibition curated by Riccardo Steccanella and presentation by Davide Da Como at LaCorniceContemporaryArt, Verona. (Italy)
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