Elio BAJRAMAJ was born in 1979 in Durrës. He is a painter and belongs to the language of modern Albanian art. In 1998, he graduated in painting at the artistic lyceum Jan Kukuzeli, in Durrës, the year in which he moved to Rome to continue his university studies at the Academy of Fine Arts of Rome, where he also graduated in painting in 2004.

Elio Bajramaj is the author of several solo exhibitions opened in: The Gallery of Art, Durrës (1993); Palazzo Ferrajoli Art Gallery, Rome (2004); Landes-Museum Art Gallery, Klagenfurt, Austria (2007); Jozef Arts Gallery, Durrës (2008) and Domenico De Vito Art Gallery, Rome (2008). In addition to solo exhibitions, he is a participant in many joint exhibitions such as the 16th Edition of the Fall Salon, Shkodër Art Gallery (2022) and in the Odissea, Perseo, Pelicani and Palazzo Bramante galleries. It is also part of the contemporary art collection Imago Mundi, Trevizo, Italy (2016). Elio Bajramaj is currently the director of the "Aleksandër Moisiu" Cultural Center in Durrës.

Across civilizations
Mixed technique, 300 x 350 cm, 2024

The conceptual approach:

The work is conceived as a hybrid relationship between the real and the surreal, where physical truth meets truth created by artificial intelligence. The content of the image departs from the stereotype of a classical figural composition, as within an almost theatrical space of an artificial ecosystem of virtual trees and vegetation, multiple images appear one after the other of different sizes and above all, when viewed face to face, form a single image. The monumental work culminates with a small canvas on the surface of which is painted a dualistic portrait, placed in the center of the composition in the foreground, which within itself brings together two individuals fused to each other in a dreamy symbiosis. A symbiosis that reflects the transcendence of civilizations, from what we are today, to what awaits humanity tomorrow, with the unstoppable and unpredictable development of artificial intelligence. Truth and artificial aesthetics, which put the hybrid future of humanity on the edge of doubt.