Lian Lutifja returns with “Nature’s melody”

TIRANA, Jan. 6 – Lian Lutfija, a young Albanian painter who lives and works in Turkey, opened this week his third solo exhibition in Tirana. The exhibition featuring 25 large-format paintings of the impressionist style was also accompanied by music with Lutfija playing flamenco sounds on his guitar.
The four-day “Nature’s melody” exhibition at the National Museum of History will be open until January 7.
With more than 10 solo exhibitions in Istanbul, Lutfija has been described by Turkish media as bringing new impressionist viewpoints to painting. After completing compulsory school in Tirana in 1989, Lutfija moved to Turkey in 1992 where he completed his high school and university graduating in painting.
“I’m attracted by impressionism, because I think artists of this period were understood better. Their sincerity impressionated their works. In my works I try to use sincerity, light, harmony, and the warm-cold reactions,” says the 32-year-old artist.
“In Turkey I experienced a very interesting and unforgettable event. I won the efficiency examination of I.A.G.SL (Anatolian High School of Fine Arts of Istanbul). This has been a miracle because of the subject of the composition “The Relations of nature of a man reading a book,” my Turkish was not sufficient enough to understand the composition of the subject. Thinking the subject was free, I created a composition in my mind and drew that. It was a three hour exam and just as there was half an hour left before the end a teacher pointed out my error and explained the subject again taking another 15 minutes of the given time leaving me only 15 minutes to finish up the 70cm x 50cm size paper and surprisingly become the 8th of the winners,” says the painter on his website.