About

 Rovers Malaj captures portions of reality - often drawing from archive images - and transforms them through the painting process. His operation consists in subtracting semantic elements to unmask ironic and intimate aspects of the subjects. He removes "weight", transforming the statement into "hyporealistic" and carrying out what Mario Perniola calls a "downgrade" of resolution. The subtraction of definition corresponds to an enhancement of the affective gradient of his works. All this passes through a sort of post-production, through which the artist distorts the primary source by emphasising, almost expressionistically, the chromatic contrasts. The resulting imagery cannot help but revolve around the theme of memory, or rather of counter-memory, understood as a reservoir of altered, fabricated and, in a certain sense, "post-produced" images in the form of memories that do not correspond to reality.

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Rovers Malaj, was born in 1995 in Albania before moving and growing up in Belluno, Italy. He initially studied at the Liceo Artistico Catullo in Belluno before obtaining both his BA and MA in Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice, attending the F atelier. He has been a member of the artist run space (s) zolforosso since November 2022 and currently lives and works in Venice, Italy.

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