The works of the famous painter Ibrahim Kodra were presented these days in Lugano, Switzerland.
41 works of Kodra are presented in the exhibition. Ibrahim Kodra had no family, he gave the paintings and money acumulated over the years for art lessons in children.
The foundation "Kodra SWISS Foundation" (Swiss Foundation Ibrahim Kodra) headed by Maria Pacolli, plans to open two youth centers in Pristina and Tirana, where children and young people will approach the art and culture path through the figure and works of Kodra.
This activity of Maria Pacolli has gathered on the 100th anniversary of the birth of Kodra diplomats, experts of Swiss, Italian and Albanian art, in an exhibition that describes all the stages of his artistic transformation from 1944 until the day he died.
A little over Ibrahim Kodra ...
Ibrahim Kodra (born in Ishëm, April 22, 1918 - February 7, 2006 died in Milan) was an Albanian painter with international reputation. Kodra is considered the most important Albanian painter internationally known. His life in Tirana dormitory "Naim Frashëri" school is terminated when at the 20 years of age (1938) leaves Albania forever with a scholarship from royal court to the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. He leaves Rome and goes in Milan, at the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera. He exhibits in Rome, Milan, Venice, Paris, Belgrade, New York, creates comparisons and reports with great painters such as Picasso, Marc Chagall, Henry Matisse, Lucio Fontana, Renato Guttuso, poets, writers, critics and directors by Eugenio Montale and Vittorio Sereni, from Bertoni to Bruno Munari, and Giuseppe Marotta.
In 1948, Ibrahim Kodra became a friend of Pablo Picasso, precisely on this topic at the "International Peace Conference of Rome", in which they both performed a profoundly artistic research. In Kodra's artistic research, the Cubism of Pablo Picasso have a lot of influence, especially after their friendship in Rome in 1948, to the point that the same Spanish newspaper talking about Picasso pictured Kodra as "the last post-cubist in Europe."