Robert Aliaj Dragot

Robert Aliaj Dragot lindi 1960, është artist multidisiplinar bashkekohor shqiptar. Perveç si piktor, ai njihet në Shqipëri edhe si nje këngëtar i sukseshem i muzikës se lehtë i viteve 80 - 90. Mbas vitit 1990 Dragot kryen nje karriere ndërkombëtare. Ka ekspozuar në gjithë Evropen dhe në ShBA. Vepra te Dragot gjendën në shumë koleksione private e publike.

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Dragot, not only began as a painter, but his painting was also the point of departure for all the other activities he manifested. In the end of 90’s, after a long career as a pop star singer, Robert Aliaj DRAGOT nearly stopped with music to come back to his first concern as an art painter. Dragot's work is figurative and makes extensive use of techniques from photography, television and film. Subjects of his paintings range usually from politics in Albania, to the very banal. For a while he abandoned painting completely to make shorts and video’s. Now many years later in Brussels, he is focused especially to a multimedial research, experimenting with photography, moving images, animations, sounds and painting itself, without loosing the picturesque quality. His attention divides himself between a critical curiosity of the artistic scene in Europe and a renewed interest for the fast shock therapeutic change, which the Albanian state underwent. Dragot lives and works in Brussels.

LAST EXHIBITIONS:

2008 “Noconnection” Espace2 Nord Brussels 5 June - 27 June 2008

2008 “Urban Jealousy” the 1st International Roaming Biennial of Tehran 30th May - 6th July 2008

2008 “Les Deux Moitié D'une Pomme” Arte Fatta a Pezzi Bologna, Italy

2008 “Mulliqi” 2007, International Contemporary art Contest, Prishtina, Kosova

2007 “Spring & Stalin”, 57th Berlin International Film Festival (the Berlinale), Berlin

2007 “Spring & Stalin”, Les Rencontres Internationales  : : : Paris/Berlin/Madrid

2007 “Spring & Stalin” Goethe Institutes in Los Angeles  and Mexico City

2007 “Meno” TIFF, Tirana International Film Festival

2006 “Discrete Elements” Chelsea Art Museum, Home of the Miotte Foundation, New York,

2006 Onufri 2006, International Contemporary art Contest, Tirana, Albania,

2005 Chiesa di San Paolo Modena, Italy, (Catalogue)

2005 “Discrete Elements” National Gallery Tirana, Albania,

2005 “La culture du conflit” TIFF, Tirana International Film Festival

2005 ARCO/MEDIALAB, Conde Duque, Caja Suiza – PERSONALCINEMA : THE MAKING OF THE BALKAN WARS : The Game http://www.balkanwars.net Madrid – Febr (Catalogue) Netherlands Media Art Institute, Montevideo/Time Based Arts, "Channel zero",

Videographie:

2000: “Escape”  Experimental Video Art 2002: “Il Moscone” – Experimental Animation 2003: “La culture du conflit”  Video 2004: “You Like Me or Not” - Animation 2005: “A Myriad Minded Manifesto - Animation, “A Bird With a Black Name” - Animation, “Discrete Elements” - Animation, “Turbulences” - 3D Animation, 2006: “L’ombre des Nouages de la Ville”- Animation, “Spring and Stalin” – Experimental Documentary 2007: “Les Deux Moitié D'une Pomme” - Experimental Documentary 2007: “Meno” – short film