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contemporary icons of the digital age. For the
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Beyond his site-specific work for exhibition venues, Gjergji also produced monumental works of public art. For the
Facades Project section of Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial 4 (2009), he was invited to paint the façade of an oversized Stalinist building, which he overlaid with
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Gjergji was also one of the three directors of Tirana Open, an international contemporary art festival of the visual arts, film, architecture, music, and literature. He has taught at the State
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where he grew up and lived till at the end of High School. He studied art and earned a BFA from the
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Jon Anderson, 2001, "Park-in salutes cars many uses,"
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