Kosovo Art Crisis

Art assessment plays a very important role in the country's culture, because accepting art in general tells of the culture that a country possesses. When there is actual acceptance and appreciation, the crisis in art is overcome, but general studies in this domain prove that there is a poor state in the field of art.

As for the crisis in art and new achievements in this area, Montenegrin painter Zake Prelvukaj, who with her paintings has infiltrated even abroad, has said that not only in the state of Kosovo but in other states is a crisis for art, plus it has a demand, that institutions focus more on young people, considering that they are important factors in the development and presentation of our state.

Kosovo's “Art I think is appreciated by people who are compatible, of course, but there's also something that in the last few years, especially since the 1990s, has become some kind of art revolution, silent that more women have come to study, that has been a lot more interesting... In every country there is an art crisis, but I think that institutions need more to focus on young people, more to focus on art because if we discover new talents and talents of nature that penetrate, self-aware and self-inventional, I think that if we share a limit for them there, I think that's how we've invested in the state, because cultural policy is often more powerful than the art of politics, politics itself is also much more stable”, she said.

Asked whether art is valued on the basis of selling paintings, she said it could be found on the basis of buyers, considering that buying paintings from a collector from foreign countries consists of that this is an achievement when there is interest from outside Kosovo.

Finally, she has warned of the recall of a painting by Picasso, which she had brought to the art gallery years earlier.

Even artist Ali Ali Alimusaj, known for his luggage with over 30,000 works of art, for 50 years of art, has a pre-coupling of art because, according to him, doing art in Kosovo is a huge problem, as followed by subjective estimates, far from critical and accurate thinking.

Doing art in Kosovo is a huge problem, it's once again to do art, to do art you have to be a double artist, the problems are that you're dealing with the circle, with people who don't understand it at all, and estimates always know how to be subjects. We artists, counting on this, have always had extraordinary will, and we know that we live in circumstances that are for us unmovable even under these conditions. It means that we've taken on something that we haven't been embraced during the decensia since the '70s that I do art. Now Kosovo is a state, and I think that institutions that are called for evaluations and to help artists and artists' activities, they should have the key word on support and yet give artists the deserved country”, he said.

According to him, the market in Kosovo poses a major problem for the painter, because the market is affecting the adaptation of young painters, not the preservation of the real features of art they cultivate.

There has been no sale in Kosovo, and for that, artists have known there is no sale, and they have created real values, and this has been revised as positive, because artists haven't adapted to the market, haven't gone to market and the real values remain, that's of great interest. Throughout the world, artists go after the market and they can be very good but they're deformed because they fit, and here at this as countervalue has been brought... It was not working for the market, it was not created for the” market, he said.

Alimusaj stressed that art is generally kept isolated.

Kosovo has “Artists, it has Albania, artists must engage, artists service the state and power. We're on the foundation of creativity, to say to the state in general... from the very important points that we have to boast about is figurative art, that we're very much at the level, even if we have to say to someone from the world and see what we have of values, in the first order we put our figurative art, that we're very prepared and we have value, we have what to show. So they remain hidden, are not promoted, are not given winters, not to talk about purchases, the support of artists that are very rare or at all, that means the state does not care”, he added.

Zake Prelvukaj and Ali Ali Alimusaj are painters who have a rich luggage with various works. They also contribute to education by enjoying the professorial status of the arts faculty. It is expected to continue at the opening of other new exhibitions to promote their continued work in art.