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Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's recent visit to Albania has returned the attention of the neighboring media to the figure of Edi Rama, Prime Minister of the country since 2013.
Libero, a right-wing daily in Italy, has devoted an article to the figure of Rama as prime minister and not only.
Article by Libero:
We can say that Edi Rama can not only boast of a first-rate political career, but even more. We remember that he was Minister of Culture, Sports and Youth in 1998-2000, Mayor of Tirana for three terms, Secretary of the Socialist Party and therefore Prime Minister.
Italians will certainly remember him in the early days of Covid, when in a video he talked about friendship and helping Italians struggling with the pandemic.
Not everyone knows, on the other hand, that Edi Rama is an internationally quoted artist. Despite his institutional commitments, he finds the way and the time not to abandon painting, drawing and exhibition installation projects to which he is often invited.
His multidimensional curriculum is truly important: he participated in three Venice Biennales, in 1999, 2003 and, especially important, in 2017 with a personal space in the exhibition curated by director Christine Macel.
Several prestigious galleries represent him: Carlierfgebauer in Berlin, Marian Goodman in New York and Alfonso Artiaco in Naples with whom he has created the most intense human and professional relationships.
As a boy, Edi Rama was a professional basketball player and played for his country's national team. Before the fall of the communist regime he worked as a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tirana, then in 1994 he emigrated to France together with his friend Anri Sala who would become one of the most important artists of the European scene who is today too.
Precisely in that period, from a nation to be totally rebuilt, a microgeneration of really important authors emerged, some like Sisley Xhafa and Adrian Paci trained in Italy at the Brera Academy, others, while Sala and Rama chose Paris.
Me kthimin nëatdhe Rama zgjedh rrugën e politikës duke zhvilluar në të njëjtën kohë praktikën e tij artistike, veçanërisht në vizatimin-abstrakt me ngjyra të mbështjella me gunga ngjyrash dhe në skulpturë shumë-materialëshe.
Ndërsa ndodhet i ulet në konferenca ose takime, ai harton skica të panumërta në faqet e axhendës të tij, në shënime zyre, protokolle, fakse e dokumente, por asgjë nuk është më larg se improvizimi, ka gjithmonë një projekt … një ide që i zhvillon këto kompozime si pjesë të trupit të njeriut.
Në skulpturë ai punon në studio në fundjavë, në momentet kur nuk ka angazhime institucionale. Në ekspozitën e fundit në Itali, në janar të 2020-ës në hapësirën Artiaco në qendrën historike të Napolit, Rama prezantoi bashkimin e dy shpirtrave të veprës së tij duke arritur momente me intensitet të rrallë.
Bota është plot me njerëz të aftë për të arritur rezultate të shkëlqyera jo vetëm në profesionin e tyre kryesor, por edhe në fusha që mund t’i konsiderojmë si hobistë. Arritja në Bienalen e Venecias si kryeministër është me të vërtetë një gjë e rrallë.
Mes politikanëve italianë të së kaluarës, Amintore Fanfani disa herë kryeministër dhe president i DC-së i cili adhuronte pikturën abstrakte, madje mori duartrokitjet e një kritiku të ashpër si Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti, ndërsa socialisti, sindikalisti, presidenti i rajonit të Abruzzo-s Ottaviano Del Turco ishte përkushtuar më shumë pikturës figurative.
Asnjëri prej të dyve nuk e kaloi pragun e amatorit, ndryshe nga Edi Rama, veprat e të cilit renditen në tregun ndërkombëtar me dhjetëra mijëra euro.
"Being mayor of Tirana is the highest form of conceptual art. The cigar is pure art, Rama declared a few years ago.
This could certainly be the driving force that led him to take up the urban planning of the city in the neighborhood where the private houses were degraded. Rama, like a true painter, had repainted the gray facades with bright colors and lively patterns.
The result was surprising: the residents enthusiastically welcomed the transformation and soon the "colored city" became a real tourist attraction.
The harmonization of colors found by Rama and the revitalization of Tirana starts from that period.
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