PAINTING OF THE DAY: “Në fshatin Lin pas shiut” (In the Village of Lin after the Rain) by Agron Polovina

In the work above, Agron Polovina portrays the village of Lin glistening after a refreshing shower of rain. The soft colours and the reflections on the wet lanes create a calm yet lively atmosphere. The work conveys the freshness and natural beauty of this tourist area of Pogradec.

Agron Polovina belongs to the group of Albanian painters trained at the Albanian Academy of Arts in Tirana, in the printmaking studio (1983). He has previously headed the Edward Lear Art Gallery, the Printmaking Department of the Art High School and the Directorate of Culture, Youth and Sport of the Municipality, all in Berat.

Polovina’s paintings have rhythm and magic, and are characterised by an expressive dissonance of colour. The ability to find and portray images of legendary figures, the everyday life of the city and the ever more mysterious play of colour harmonies is the constant inclination of the artist’s work.

For the past 10 years the painter has often stood on a “bridge” of his own making, between the abstract and the real, in the relationship between image and shadow and the three-dimensional rendering of the figure.

Standing on this “bridge”, Polovina carefully observes the flow of his imagination and creates his works, keeping a fragile balance between expressionism and abstraction, Dadaism and realism, while respecting the legacy of traditional artists. /liberale/