Petraq Pecani

Albania

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Petraq Pecani’s colours are deeply peculiar and they emanate a strong attraction, there’s this rather diverse pallete based on properly studied colour schemes. The warm tones have an outstanding brightness and energy, the blue shades extend themselves through a wide amplitude and they exhibit a unique depth. Pecani often uses greys, half tones and neutral colours, which on the one hand, work as a way to highlight and intensify the colour’s intensity and, on the other, inject a subtle and pastel atmosphere, so typical in his paintings. That whole ambience finds a deep contrast in its powerful impastos filled with life and expressiveness.

His quick brushstrokes are loaded with energy and incite a relevant motion. By looking at them more attentively, it’s obvious that the scenes are suggested through an overlap of shades and lines fostered by multiple brushstrokes. They are juxtaposed, overlapped, and they can also be more opaque or transparent, whilst holding more or fewer impastos. His consecutive brushstrokes work as is they were a set of optical effects, in which the images are solely recreated in the viewer’s retina. His landscapes, abiding by an impressionist trait, only gives us a distant vision, akin to a suggestion found between the fog, an incomplete memory which we’ll reconstruct using our imagination.  

Pecani paints a wide number of rural scenes, between mountains, groves, trails and houses. One can feel the passing of the seasons, as if we were watching his daily life throughout the year. The artist conveys deep genuine feelings with his painting and we tend to calmly and quietly be fond of the beauty of his brushstrokes. His impastos are captivating, they awaken our touch, they incite a tempting desire to touch them.

By Pedro Boaventura • Excerpt from Masters of Painting - Volume 1
Contact Artist
Petraq Pecani was born in 1956 in ancient town of Gjirokaster, south of Albania. Pecani’s collection is represented in “Art Gallery Pecani”, Tirana. Many of his works are parts of private collections worldwide.

Publishing:
• International Contemporary Artist, Vol. IV, New York
• Over Art, Nr: 4, July-August 2012 Italy
• Over Art, Nr: 6, November-December 2012 Italy
• International Peace Prize, G.O.M.P.A. Italy 2013
• IMPORTANT WORLD ARTISTS, 2013, California U.S.A
• PROTAGONISTI DELL’ARTE, 2014, Italy
• MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, 2016, London
• ARTE STATES, Volume I, exhibition in Hollywood-New York-Washington, 2016
• Masters of Painting, Volume 1, Art Galaxie, Lisbon

Exhibitions
2018 – Tirana – Museum National of Albania, PranverArt 9
2017 – Brisbane Art Prize, finalist
2017 – Giverny, France, SAM, Galerie Demarez
2016 – Hollywood-New York-Washington Arte States, video exhibition.
2015 – Shanghai, Art Fair (represented by Gallery Steiner).
2015 –New York-Art Expo.
2015 – Vienna- Exhibition “Seasons” The Gallery Steiner.
2014 - Los Angeles, World Wide Art Fair.
2013 - London: Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall.
2013 - Barcelona Showcase: International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. 2013 - Rome: Poema Libero, group exhibition, Museum L’Agostiniana.
2013 - Palermo: International Peace Prize G.O.M.P.A.
2012 - Milan: Salone Bernini Two personal exhibitions in Gallery Spacio-
Museale curated by Sabrina Falcone.
2012 - Barcelona: Crisolart Galleries, Group exhibitions.
2012 - Tirana-Albania: Pranvera Art 3, annual exhibition in The National
Historic Museum.
2011 - Tokyo: His oil Painting “Divjak” selected as Winner of
International Competition.
2011 - Paris: International Fair of Contemporary Art, Carrousel of Louvre. 2011 - Brussels: Am Art Gallery group exhibition.
2011 - Terme- Italy: Biennale of Chianciano.
2011 - Tirana: Art for Hope at Sheraton Hotel.
2011 - Berat-Albania: Edward Lire Gallery, annual group exhibition.
2011 - Durres-Albania: Gallery Colosseu, Group Exhibition.
2010 - Bergamo-Italy: Finalist and Winner of Honorable Prize of GB
Moroni Competition: Il Colori della Mia Terra.
2010 - Bergamo-Italy: Prelude of Autumn- New Artemisia Gallery.
2008 - Tirana-Albania: International Fair, Palace of Congress.
2004 - Tirana-Albania: Personal exhibition in Gallery Zenith.
1992-97 - Athens-Greece: Collaborated with art center Land Art Bubulina
1994 - Kolonaki- Athens: Personal exhibition at Rumeljoton Center.
1992 - Igumenica-Greece: First Personal exhibition abroad at El Greco
Hotel.
Contact Artist
Exhibitions
2018 – Tirana – Museum National of Albania, PranverArt 9
2017 – Brisbane Art Prize, finalist
2017 – Giverny, France, SAM, Galerie Demarez
2016 – Hollywood-New York-Washington Arte States, video exhibition.
2015 – Shanghai, Art Fair (represented by Gallery Steiner).
2015 –New York-Art Expo.
2015 – Vienna- Exhibition “Seasons” The Gallery Steiner.
2014 - Los Angeles, World Wide Art Fair.
2013 - London: Art Biennale, Chelsea Old Town Hall.
2013 - Barcelona Showcase: International Exhibition of Contemporary Art. 2013 - Rome: Poema Libero, group exhibition, Museum L’Agostiniana.
2013 - Palermo: International Peace Prize G.O.M.P.A.
2012 - Milan: Salone Bernini Two personal exhibitions in Gallery Spacio-
Museale curated by Sabrina Falcone.
2012 - Barcelona: Crisolart Galleries, Group exhibitions.
2012 - Tirana-Albania: Pranvera Art 3, annual exhibition in The National
Historic Museum.
2011 - Tokyo: His oil Painting “Divjak” selected as Winner of
International Competition.
2011 - Paris: International Fair of Contemporary Art, Carrousel of Louvre. 2011 - Brussels: Am Art Gallery group exhibition.
2011 - Terme- Italy: Biennale of Chianciano.
2011 - Tirana: Art for Hope at Sheraton Hotel.
2011 - Berat-Albania: Edward Lire Gallery, annual group exhibition.
2011 - Durres-Albania: Gallery Colosseu, Group Exhibition.
2010 - Bergamo-Italy: Finalist and Winner of Honorable Prize of GB
Moroni Competition: Il Colori della Mia Terra.
2010 - Bergamo-Italy: Prelude of Autumn- New Artemisia Gallery.
2008 - Tirana-Albania: International Fair, Palace of Congress.
2004 - Tirana-Albania: Personal exhibition in Gallery Zenith.
1992-97 - Athens-Greece: Collaborated with art center Land Art Bubulina
1994 - Kolonaki- Athens: Personal exhibition at Rumeljoton Center.
1992 - Igumenica-Greece: First Personal exhibition abroad at El Greco
Hotel.
Contact Artist
• 2010 The finalists of the seventh competition GB Moroni

• 2011 The work Divjak was chosen in the International competition of Tokyo, Japan
Contact Artist
Publishing:
• International Contemporary Artist, Vol. IV, New York
• Over Art, Nr: 4, July-August 2012 Italy
• Over Art, Nr: 6, November-December 2012 Italy
• International Peace Prize, G.O.M.P.A. Italy 2013
• IMPORTANT WORLD ARTISTS, 2013, California U.S.A
• PROTAGONISTI DELL’ARTE, 2014, Italy
• MASTERS OF CONTEMPORARY FINE ARTS, 2016, London
• ARTE STATES, Volume I, exhibition in Hollywood-New York-Washington, 2016
• Masters of Painting, Volume 1, Art Galaxie, Lisbon
Contact Artist
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