Erzen Shkololli
Albanian Flag on the Moon

2005

EB66

4-color offset print
70 x 100 cm

Edition of 100, signed and numbered
Edition A: 55 copies (numbered 1/55 - 55/55, all in portfolios)
Edition B: 35 copies (numbered I/XXXV - XXXV/XXXV)
10 Artists Proofs (numbered AP 1/10 - AP 10/10)

250 Euro (Edition B)

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part of portfolio Love It or Leave It
Offset print by Erzen Shkololli. Iconic photograph showing an Apollo 12 astronaut next to the US flag that has just been raised. The Albanian flag is retouched over the American flag. Above the photo is the inscription “July 1999”, the end of the Kosovo war. Below the photo: “Albanian Flag on the Moon for the First time”

    In his work Albanian Flag on the Moon, Kosovo-Albanian Erzen Shkololli mounted the Albanian flag in the iconic photograph showing Apollo 12 astronaut Charles Conrad in 1969 next to the US flag that had just been raised on the moon. The gesture is both ironic and hopeful: by titling the image “Albanian Flag on the Moon for the First time” and dating the event to “July 1999”, Shkololli establishes a link between the first moon landing and the end of the Kosovo war. While the country lies in ruins, Shkololli humorously defends Albanian patriotism by finally marking its territory in space 30 years after the first moon landing.
    Text: Eva Scharrer