Anri Sala
Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video.
Anri Sala
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- Born
- 1974.
- Nationality
- Albania and France.
- Occupation
- video artist, printmaker, visual artist, television producer, video installation artist and film director.
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Anri Sala (born 1974) is an Albanian contemporary artist whose primary medium is video.
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Anri Sala (born 1974) is a film director, printmaker and television producer, among other activities, a national of Albania and France. The film director worked in Berlin and Paris.
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Life and career
Life and career
Sala studied art at the Albanian Academy of Arts from 1992 to 1996. He also studied video at the Ecole Nationale des Arts Décoratifs, Paris and film direction in Le Fresnoy-Studio National des Arts Contemporains, Tourcoing. He lives and works in Paris. Sala's video installation Dammi i colori ("Give me the colors") was on display at Tate Modern in London. The installation reflects on the transformation of Tirana in 2003 by means of colors. The installation includes a conversation with Tirana's mayor, Edi Rama, a personal friend of the artist's and the force behind this transformation. Sala will participate in ROUNDTABLE: The 9th Gwangju Biennale (2012). Answer Me (2008) was filmed in a Buckminster Fuller-inspired geodesic dome in Berlin, a former NSA surveillance tower, which was constructed on the Teufelsberg (Devil's Mountain). He represented France at the Venice Biennale in 2013. Sala presented Le Clash (2010), Tlatelolco Clash (2011) and Doldrum (2014) as a mixed installation in Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, and in November 2014 he won the Vincent Award. He is in a relationship with Rosario, Princess of Preslav.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1974
Anri Sala was born in 1974.
Short films
1999 Quelle histoire? (Mirage Illimité), Paris Nocturnes (Le Fresnoy), Tourcoing. Selected at the Rencontres cinématographiques, Tourcoing (1999); selected at the Short Film Festival, Clermont Ferrand (2000) 1998 Intervista - finding the words (Ideale Audience, ENSAD), Paris. Best Film Award, Estavar Video Festival, Estavar. Best Documentary Film Award, Entrevues Festival, Belfort. Best Short Film Award, Amascultura Festival, Portugal. Best Documentary Film Award, International Documentary Film Festival, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (1999). Best Documentary Film Award, Filmfest 2000, Tirana
Public collections
Public collections
Anri Sala's work is included in public collections such as Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA; LACMA, Los Angeles, USA; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona, Spain; MoMA, New York, USA; Pinault Collection, Paris, France; Tate, London, UK; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; among others.
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Primary material
Documents and archives
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 16330549-3, Exhibition Anri Sala (2011 : London).
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q568659: Anri Sala
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- “Anri Sala”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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Recognition and awards
Vincent Award (2014) Absolut Art Award (2011) Young Artist Prize at the 49th Venice Biennale (2001) Prix Gilles Dusein, Paris (2000) Best Documentary Film Award from the Filmfest in Tirana (2000) International Film Festival in Santiago de Compostela (1999). Hugo Boss Prize (2002)
Essential bibliography
Mark Godfrey, "1000 words: Anri Sala", Artforum, New York, April (2015) Christine Macel, "Anri Sala - Ravel Ravel Unravel", Venice Biennale (2013) Christopher Mooney, "Anri Sala", Art Review, London, Summer (2013) Michael Fried, Joshua Simon, "Anri Sala", Serpentine Gallery, London (2011) Hans Ulrich Obrist, Mark Godfrey, Liam Gillick, "Anri Sala", Phaidon, London (2006) Lynne Cooke, Mark Godfrey, Jan Verwoert, "Anri Sala", Parkett, Zurich (2005) Massimiliano Gioni, Michele Robecchi, "Anri Sala: Unfinished Histories", Flash Art, Milan, no. 219, July–September (2001) Laurence Bosse, Hans Ulrich Obrist, "Anri Sala: When the Night Calls", Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1999)
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- 1.ROUNDTABLE announces participants.
- 2.Anri Sala: Purchase Not By Moonlight, May 6 - June 20, 2009 Marian Goodman, New York.
- 3.Íntima de Mette-Marit y Paltrow: Rosario Nadal, los 50 años de la dama más enigmática. 22 October 2018.
- 4.Los Cortina, Rosario Nadal y Miriam Ungría, ¿'víctimas' del Brexit? - Informalia.es.
- 5.Anri Sala Marian Goodman Gallery.
- 6.Sala, Anri. Mixed Behavior. May 2003.
- 7.Mixed Behaviour. Centre Pompidou.
- 8.Dallas Museum of Art. dma.org.
- 9.Untitled LACMA Collections. collections.lacma.org.
- 10.1395 Days Without Red, 2011 Anri Sala MACBA. MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona.
- 11.Anri Sala. Airport (for Parket no. 73). 2005 MoMA. The Museum of Modern Art.
- 12.Anri Sala Bourse de Commerce. www.pinaultcollection.com.
- 13.Tate. 'After Three Minutes', Anri Sala, 2007.
- 14.walkerart.org.
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Gemeinsame Normdatei 16330549-3, Exhibition Anri Sala (2011 : London).Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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