Pad (Dec 2019)
Adrian Paci’s Art House in Shkodër: a Common and Shared Space between Cultures and Art
Abstract
“La matematica mi confonde. Come misura del mondo è strana./Per quanti conti si facciano qualcosa non torna mai pari./Due finestre fanno una vista? quattro muri sono una casa?” (D’Agostino, 2015). Art House is Adrian Paci’s family home transformed into a common, shared space, open to the ideas and cultural contributions of the art world, open to others and to the encounters within them. The concept of home, always dear to this artist of Albanian origin, finds here meaning and fulfilment here, thanks to an added value: a human element. The “four walls” of the house open up (not so much metaphorically, but above all physically, thanks to a series of large windows) and leave ample leeway to dialogue, to the exchange: “even if Albania is no longer as isolated as it once was, communication with the rest of the world is still difficult”, as Paci says, talking about the Art House project, conceived together with his wife Melisa Ballata, in his hometown of Shkodër.
