‘Mediterranean intimacy’

TIRANA, March 29 – “Mediterranean intimacy” a challenge to hyperrealism is the latest exhibition bringing Turkey-based Albanian painter Lian Lutfija home. The 34-year-old painter brings a series of 20 oil on canvass paintings brings a concept of Mediterranean life and nature. Inaugurated on March 29, the exhibition at the National Museum of History in Tirana will remain open until April 4.
Last year, Lian Lutfija, opened his third solo exhibition in Tirana featuring 25 large-format paintings of the impressionist style was also accompanied by music with Lutfija playing flamenco sounds on his guitar.
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.