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Innumerable Petals at Zeta Contemporary Art Center Co-curated by Endri 
Dani and Markus Waitschacher. Participating artists: Abi Shehu, Agron 
Dine, …

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	Agron Dine, /Vaditja e Luleve/, /(Watering Flowers)/, 1981. Oil 
Painting, 240x180 cm. Courtesy of Pallati i Kulturës (Palace of 
Culture), Tirana, Albania. Photo: Zeni Alia. 	

*/Innumerable Petals/*
April 4–May 5, 2024

*ZETA Contemporary Art Center*
Abdyl Frashëri Street, Nd.8, H.7, Ap.4 (2nd floor)
Hekla Center
1019 Tirana
Albania

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Co-curated by Endri Dani and Markus Waitschacher.

*Participating artists:* Abi Shehu, Agron Dine, Alfred Lenz, Fatlum 
Doçi, Lumturi Blloshmi, Marianne Lang, Remijon Pronja, Rosella 
Pelliccioti (Was bleibt kollektiv / Gentian Doda), Ryts Monet, Susanna 
Hofer, zweintopf.

/Innumerable Petals/ brings together six Albanian artists and five 
Austrian artists in an exhibition which will be held in three locations 
in Tirana: ZETA Contemporary Art Center, ZENIT Art Gallery and Agimi Art 
Center. The curatorial orientation of this exhibition has its starting 
point in a casual encounter with a painting by the Albanian artist Agron 
Dine (b. 1948, Vlora), a painting that currently decorates one of the 
public institutions in the capital of Albania. The subject of this 
artwork is several young people who are watering healthy, blooming 
flowers in one of the city’s parks. In the background of this landscape, 
a cluster of industrial buildings evidences the sharp contrasts between 
organicity and an idealized and alienated future that represents the 
modality of perception and imagination in the 20th century.

Throughout human history, artists and thinkers alike have tried—as best 
they could—to understand the origin of living phenomena. In this 
collective exhibition, flowers (and other natural elements) serve as a 
catalyzing force embodying the concepts elaborated by the participating 
artists. Flowers function here as an analogy for the origin: the origin 
of fruits, of seeds, of forests, of all the history of material culture 
derived from the wood of those forests (from prehistory down to our 
present), and today flowers still possess great symbolic power—whether 
in mythology, religion, art, or politics.

The use of flowers as a metaphor for the origin, for the genesis or 
beginning /(the Big Bang effect)/, likewise suggests the terminological 
metaphor of the /flowering/ of the new economies of the global South and 
their forms of contact and confrontation with the old, capitalist 
countries of the West.

Austria’s historical background—belonging to a Western European 
context—is characterized by a specific register of practices of 
domination. Whereas Albania, a small territory that had previously been 
occupied by several empires, would become completely isolated in the 
20th century, experiencing acute limitations on autonomy imposed by the 
policy-making class /(the Communist Party leaders and administrators)/. 
The developments of the 21st century are now homogenizing the fragmented 
modes of dominance of the past, pushing towards a planetary imperialism 
under the aegis of the term proposed by the academic world of the last 
century—universal capitalism.

This contemporary weakening of past modes of domination /(for certain 
societies with an imperialist history)/, and the centralization of 
financial resources in a particular region of the globe, need not 
produce geopolitical fragmentation. Instead, it should generate new 
limbs or new buds of solidarity that might liberate society’s emotional 
sphere /(as part of a unified social body)/ from the oppression of 
financial capitalism.

The very title of the exhibition, /Innumerable Petals/, aims to weaken 
the dominance of numerical entities in the contemporary world. At the 
same time, the analogy of the flower as an origin provides the works on 
view with an organic vision of social progress, since the fertile 
dimensions of the organic universe have inspired the artists with 
morphologies and fantastic metamorphoses, revealing the intelligence of 
a non-human world mostly ignored by the human rationality that has 
brought us to the present chaos.

The fragility of the living world, and the title of the exhibition, 
raise a question that is as naïve as it is poetic: Isn’t it a sin to 
count a flower’s petals?

This exhibition is part of /Imagine Dignity/, a flagship project of 
Austria’s international cultural activities, supported by the Styria 
region with primary sponsor Land Steiermark, Department 9 Culture, 
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In the fall of this year, this exhibition will travel to Austria.

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