
Addition on the mural for Wasa Innovation Center, Vaasa, June 2022.

Addition on the mural for Wasa Innovation Center, Vaasa, June 2022.

Mural for Wasa Innovation Center, Vaasa, August-September 2021. Detail.

Addition on the mural for Wasa Innovation Center, Vaasa, June 2022.
'Click', Wasa Innovation Center, August-September 2021 / June 2022
The mural painting rapresents the genesis of an idea... the Idea! That moment before being understood, in a still indefinite and abstract space, full of creative tension. An ode to intuition and to that precise moment, when our thoughts meet and click, making it all start.
The vivid abstraction of colors will convey the creative tension that arises in our mind, therefore in a space without coordinates or limits. It also accompanies and emphasizes the meeting of its main subjects, such as trails of energy and tails of vitality… in a fluidity of impulses and stimuli. The black and white circle symbolically represent the unconscious and consciousness, while the figurative and realistic part is left to the internal cores: a tribute to the human being and beyond, through the expressive use of carbon and water.
From the encounter, from the collision, intuitive impulses arise which, depicted as lines, begin to tangle and dance together, generating the idea.
The title is inspired by a common but, in our opinion, clear and brilliant word, of the moment when something clicks... it happens... it engages. It can be an encounter, a mechanism, an action/reaction of a different nature. A certain moment, in which two entities meet and, from their clash, union, fusion, something new is born... something more.
Basically it is a simple, direct, overwhelming visual tribute to intuition, to probability... to creation.

Before Black Box Genesis work.

At work!

Design by Bekim Hasaj, September 2021 (Vaasa, Finalnd).

Before Black Box Genesis work.

Mural for Mural Rural Festival, May-August 2021. Location: Jarla Products Oy, Malax.

Mural for Mural Rural Festival, May-August 2021. At work...

Mural for Mural Rural Festival, May-August 2021.

Mural for Mural Rural Festival, May-August 2021. Location: Jarla Products Oy, Malax.
'Growing', Mural Rural Festival, May-August 2021
'' A face that is mirroring in the water and, on clear days, will find its double that will complete itself.
Eye reflecting the sky... or is it full of sky? A sun is glowing in that absorbed gaze.
A rain of color bathes that face, with the shades of the seasons, and makes it grow to the rhythm of the land and the forest.
Sucking the nourishment with the firm roots, it changes and grows, while its mind is intersecting in branches of life... in a flourishing metamorphosis.''
Thank you: Art in Malakta rf, Jarla Products Oy & Ramirent Finland Oy.
https://www.malakta.fi/mural-rural/
articles: Vasabladet 12.5.2021 / Yle 14.5.2021

Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 30° anniversary, July-August 2020. Photo by Dragos Alexandrescu.

Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 30° anniversary, July-August 2020. Photo from article on the official city website.

Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 30° anniversary, July-August 2020. Photo by Dragos Alexandrescu.

Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 30° anniversary, July-August 2020. Photo by Dragos Alexandrescu.
Mural for Vaasa Arts Night 30° anniversary, July-August 2020
Valentina Gelain and Bekim Hasaj, this summer, had the honor of being part of Vaasa City urban landscape with a mural that will celebrate the Night of the Arts' 30° anniversary. Thanks again to everyone who supported and made the project possible!
Thank you: Vaasan kaupunki - Vasa stad, Vaasan kaupungin kulttuuripalvelut, Vasa stads kulturtjänster | Project Manager: Illka Nyqvist | Granted by Bröderna Gröndahls Stiftelse - Veljekset Gröndahlin Säätiö sr | Building: Vasa Övningsskola.
video documentation / www.vaasa.fi
articles: Vasabladet 3.9.2020 / Ilkka-Pohjalainen 1.8.2020 / Yle 31.7.2020 / Vasabladet 30.7.2020 / Vasabladet 11.6.2020