TIRANA, Dec. 10 – Veteran Albanian painter and art professor Gazmend Leka has opened a solo exhibition focusing on the apple as a forbidden fruit between him and painting.
“While painting the Apple cycle, I came across endless stories, myths and legends about it. I perceived it as a symbol object which has accompanied human beings to present day. I have never encountered a much-rumored fruit than the apple,” says Leka.
Ardian Isufi, the curator of the exhibition, compares the author’s working studio to a warehouse full of holy apples.
“His working studio, like a sacred edifice, to be found next to a crossroads in Tirana, in which his paintings, stacked one after the other, look as if they are under the spell of an organized disorganization of artistic research, resembles a warehouse filled with holy apples,” says curator Isufi.
The exhibition at the FAB gallery of the University of Arts will remain open until December 20.
