Arben Golemi in “Enclosed love”

TIRANA, April 11 – “Enclosed Love” is the newest exhibition artist Arben Golemi has opened at the Kledio gallery in Tirana where some 15 works bringing a mix of painting and architecture are being displayed.
Born in Berat and having studied both architecture and fine arts, Golemi, 58, has participated in many personal and collective painting exhibitions in Albania and around the world.
Inspired by the medieval city of Berat, where he grew up, Golemi’s acrylics on canvas are architectonic abstractions that convey a simultaneous sense of history and immediacy. He accomplishes this impressive synthesis through a style that could be compared, for its blunt graphic power, to that of the American abstract expressionist Franz Kline. One of the main differences between them, however, is that while Kline’s best work was monochromatic -the famous black and white abstractions of the late 40s and early 50s – Golemi is a subtle and engaging colorist, even when he too chooses to work in monochromes.