Prime Minister Rama returns to Paris as an artist with an exhibition

“This is the exhibition that opens today in Paris. It is not wasted time for whoever lives or passes there to take the opportunity to see it,” wrote Prime Minister Rama on his Facebook profile.
TIRANA, Dec. 4 – Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama, a painter-turned-politician, has opened an exhibition in Paris where he lived in the early 1990s before he returned to Albania to become culture minister in 1998.
Rama is participating in the exhibition with some “office paper” works where some sketches have been drawn on his agenda as mayor and Prime Minister.
“This is the exhibition that opens today in Paris. It is not wasted time for whoever lives or passes there to take the opportunity to see it,” wrote Prime Minister Rama on his Facebook profile.
Bujar Luca, another Albanian artist based in France is also participating in the exhibition which will remain open at the “Rhinoc곯s & Cie gallery in Paris until Dec. 24.
“Edi Rama is a painter-turned-politician who studied at the School of Fine Arts in Paris and during the 1990s made his home in the French capital. On his return to Albania, he became minister of culture in the Socialist government of Fatos Nano in 1998,” writes the BBC on the Albanian leaders profile.
“In 2000, he was elected mayor of Tirana – a position he held until 2011. As mayor, he set out to remake the impoverished capital into a lively modern city, and embarked on a number of controversial projects, one of which was to order the painting of many old buildings in what became known as Edi Rama colours – bright pink, yellow, green and violet.”