Jakup Ferri / Selected Biography

JAKUP FERRI (1981) Prishtina,Kosova.
Lives and works in Prishtina.

Education:
Academy of Arts in Prishtina 2004.

Group Exhibition:
2004
,,e-flux Video Rental,,e-flux,New York
,,Mediterraneans.Arte Contemporanea,,MACRO al Mattatoio,Roma. ,,Onufri prize,,National Gallery,Tirana.
,,Coalesce:With all due intent,,Model Arts and Nilland Gallery,Sligo,Ireland.
,,Total museum of contemporary art,Seoul,Korea.
,,Biennale of young artist,,National
Gallery,Bucharest.
,,24 FPS,,Galerija Skuc,Ljubljana.
,,Modern Art of Kosova,,NGMA,Colaba ,India.
,,Love it or leave it,,Cetinje biennale
V,Cetinje,Dubrovnik,Tirana.
,,I Need a Radical Change,,Galleria Nova,Zagreb.
2003
,,In den Schluchten des Balkan,,Kunsthalle Fridericianum,Kassel.
,,Cocteil Enigmatic,,National Museum,Prishtina.
,,Muslim Mulliqi prize,,National Gallery ,Prishtina.
,,Artists of tomorrow II,,National Gallery,Prishtina.
,,Fish doesn_t think cause fish knows
everything,,National Gallery,Prishtina.

Prizes:
2003
,,Muslim Mulliqi,, GAK , Prishtina,(first prize) ,,Artists of tomorrow II,, GAK, Prishtina,(first
prize)

Residency:
2004
International Studio & Curatorial Program (ISCP),New-York.
Cultural City Network Graz,Graz.
NIFCA ,West Balkan Air 2004 _ Rooseum,Malmo Sweden.

Address :
Velania 3,NR 11
Prishtina
Kosova
UNMIK
contact: ferrijakup@yahoo.com




Don't Tell Anybody

The young artist puts forward a question: "Maybe I am late, because everything has been said and done". A bothersome and discouraging question one might say, especially in countries which are "late" themselves.
Quite astonishingly, this delay inspires Jakup Ferri to produce his tongue-in-cheek comments: We are late, so what? F. Bacon once said that by standing on the shoulders of a giant, the dwarf can see much further.
If we unfortunately are the dwarves to our predecessors, we still have the right to be whatever we are, or the right to, at least, ridicule one another, don't we?
In the video titled Three Virgins, the artist first listens to a performance by Yoko Ono and John Lennon calling each other by their names, and then starts calling his own name "Jakup! Jakup!"He might be resurrecting the old saying "Nomen est omen"? Or, better yet, he might be searching for the place where the"delayed" stand among the stars?
In the video Don't tell to anybody, Ferri counts the number of grains in one kilo of rice. In medieval times, scholars engaged in heated arguments over the number of angels balancing on the point of a needle. For no purpose. Scholars of modern day materialism count the number of grains in rice. For no purpose.
In the artwork titled Made in Kosova (For Love's Sake), Ferri again expresses the horrible feeling of being too late. In Eastern Europe today, the artist is supported neither by the state nor by a market. He can only dream of the success of someone like Jeff Koons.
Ferri finds a way to manifest this dream. He decides to produce toilet paper with Koons's name on it. With his arse, this young artist pokes fun at reality as he sees it: Kosova that produces almost nothing, the distress of the delayed artists, spiritual jam and stopover of Western art, Koons4 ability to mock and soak the rich.

Shkklzen Maliqi

Jakup Ferri / Artwork

NIFCA Web 2.0 / Residencies and Gallery / Artist Gallery / Jakup Ferri

http://www.nifca.org//residencies/gallery/Ferri_Jakup.html