Salloni i Vjeshtes - Art Show

Visited the recent show at the art gallery - "Salloni i Vjeshtes"

It was a collection of paintings from some Shkoder artists and also from the "Nentor" group in Tirana.
I'm not that qualified as an artist to give you a run down of all that was on display, but I will show some photos I took -especially of some paintings that I really liked.

This one of Father Zef Pellumbi.


Another of a typical street in Albania.


And my personal favourite, of a street scene in the mountains.


Apologies for the quality of the photos, but I took them with the mobile phone.

World Record for Albania

An Albanian artist has entered the Guinness Book of World Records for a THIRD time, this time with a large mosaic constructed out of bottle corks.

Saimir Strati, 42, used more than 300,000 of the corks in the mosaic of a young man playing a guitar, measuring 12.94 metres wide by 7.1 metres high (39 by 21 feet).

"This work is dedicated to the Mediterranean spirit which is nourished by music, the sun and wine," Strati said at a ceremony to unveil his latest piece of artwork.

In September 2006, his first record was with the world's largest portrait made of nails, of Leonardo da Vinci. It required more than 500,000 nails.


In 2007 he was back with a mosaic using 500,000 toothpicks dedicated to Antonio Gaudi, the Spanish architect famous for constructions including Barcelona's Sagrada Familia church.


Now 300,000 corks for the guitarist!
(I'm just glad it wasn't my job to count how many corks or toothpicks that he used!!)

Truly a work of art, and fantastic creative imagination and hard work!
14 hours a day for 28 days!
Congratulations!

Wiki information here.
His own website here.
Some excellent photos of his work here.

Adrian Paci

Adrian Paci is an artist who was born in Shkoder in 1969 and now lives and works in Milan.

He has gained international recognition for some of his work, and had exhibitions all over Europe.
Some of his work can be viewed here.


I would recommend that you go HERE and watch the short video "Turn On" made in Shkoder, 2004 on the energy crisis in Albania.