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Bujar Luca, the life of a perfectionist
2023-11-04 16:15:42 / JETË
Bujar Luca, the painter but also the graphic artist and poet, invited to the "Artkand" program with Jetona Koçibelli, showed for the first time a not so unknown side of his creativity, that of the 80s.
At the "Auction" are currently two paintings from this year, 'Bus Station in the Rain' and 'Dalia'. The artist stated that the first painting would be banned from being exhibited by the commission, for the reason that it did not present the great themes of socialism, but was very poetic and lyrical.
The artist said that the isolated character represents his self-portrait, as the lonely intellectual in front of the crowd. Because the intellectual was then hated by the crowd. Contrary to the art of realism which was a schematic and commanding art, the artist confessed that he quickly broke away from this way of painting to choose 'action painting'.
Bujar Luca faced the communist dictatorship in his youth. Born in Tirana, in 1954, he graduated from the Higher Institute of Arts in 1978. From the time he was a student, his thirst to be involved in art quickly brought him into conflict with his professors and painting of socialist realism. His non-conformity causes him to be excluded for a year in the defense of his degree, and later to be systematically rejected for years by exhibition commissions. In the 80s, he wrote poetry intensively. The main themes are isolation, anxiety, the hope to escape from the clutches of the totalitarian regime and to one day find spiritual and creative freedom. In them, everything is expressed through metaphors. Some of these poems were published shortly after they arrived in Paris, in the collection entitled "Oniromancie".
In 1986, his first solo exhibition became possible, not with paintings but with drawings of movie costumes. In 1989, Kinostudio sends him to do a two-month internship for special effects in the cinema, in Paris. This year, he finally opened his second solo exhibition with his paintings, but these were also selected by a special commission: fortunately much more tolerant. This exhibition would coincide with the fall of the Berlin wall. In 1990, Bujar Luca, invited to open an exhibition in France, chose to live in Paris.
In September of this year, the magazine "Connaissance des Arts", speaking for the first time about art in Albania, publishes a two-page spread photographed among the paintings in his atelier in Tirana. In 1991, the first exhibition opens in Paris personal. In the years 1990-2023, exhibitions will follow each other and will be numerous. In 2015, Bujar Luca would return for the first time to the National Art Gallery with a solo exhibition. While this retrospective "Touching the Invisible" is his second exhibition in Albania, during these 33 years that Bujar Luca has been living in Paris.
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