Artan Hajrullahu (Born in 1979 in Gjilan, Kosovo) studied at the Academy of Arts, University of Prishtina. Hajrullahu teaches painting at the Visual Arts High School in Gjilan. He is an artist challenging societal norms through his paintings and drawings. His works provoke conservative ideals around beauty, nudity, relationships, marriage, gender roles, and personal choice, often facing criticism from traditionalists.
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\nHajrullahu recreates a picture of the Balkans with its own intimate world, local life, dreams and relations, they way they are outside the city centre and cities in general, the differing policies, the news, the meaning constructs and discourses that the mass media, social media and sometimes contemporary art carry and suggest. This sense of his own intimate world, which is unified and shared, also lends a specific lack of perspective to his drawings \u2013 they lack the outlines of walls of living spaces or any type of border whatsoever. Objects, people, events are maintained by relationships, by love, by unconditional acceptance and openness to change and to what is different. In order to support the idea of lack of limitations, conventions and spatiality, the author chooses to paint his paintings on cheap wrapping paper with its own relief and brownish colour. It is traditionally used for the transportation of food products and materials to protect and preserve them from soiling. The artist locates it not in art supply stores, but everywhere around him. He draws with ordinary pencils and frames his works with self-made cardboard frames. All these artistic choices prompt us to perceive his work through the sense of poverty, the sense of transience and movement, documentaries, crisis, fragility, truthfulness and authenticity. Undoubtedly, he also takes us back to the period of the war between Kosovo and Serbia, when the author was forced to abandon his home along with all his fellow citizens, yet he did not stop painting. Although not directly political, Artan\u2019s drawings are undeniably reminiscent of this difficult moment for the Balkan region that we are still confronted with.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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