Leka’s magical works of art will be on display for art lovers until November 2.

The artist has told the media that drawing is very “connected” to man and the history of humanity: from the pictograms found in caves to the blackboards of Einstein, Bohr and Oppenheimer.

“Drawing has magic in itself, where the cause-effect scheme is missing and you wonder, how did this come about, how did this turn out?”, said Gazmend Leka.

Leka confessed that he began to create the drawings for this exhibition 3 years ago and that he, as a lecturer since 1991 at the University of Fine Arts, saw his students as an impetus to exhibit the works at the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts (FAB).

For the exhibition “The Magic of Drawing”, the painter Leka has selected about 60 large-scale drawings and 15 small ones. As in other exhibitions in recent years, Leka has preferred to collaborate and have Ermir Hoxha as curator, his former student, now a lecturer in Albanian History of Art. /j.p/p.s./

“Farewell my friend Leka Bungo! Rest in peace!”, wrote PM Rama in the social media.

Director Bungo passed away at the age of 81. His funeral was planned later on the day. The sad news was announced by his family members through social networks.

His daughter, Alba, wrote that her father could not win the battle with the serious illness. Bungo was one of the most prominent names in Albanian art, with important contributions to theater, film and television. /e.r/a.f/p.s./

The jury highly appreciated the stylistic and thematic innovations, as well as the surprising depth of Arian Leka’s poetics, not only as a representative of Albanian literature, but also of European literary art.

Arian Leka is the first Albanian author to win this prestigious award.

The “Tudor Arghezi” International Literature Festival was held in the Romanian city of Târgu Jiu on 19-22 May 2022.

In this edition of the Festival, poet Arian Leka presented the book “Dumb map for the drowned”, a book that has been translated into many literary magazines in German, French, Italian, Spanish and several languages ​​of the region”.

The “Tudor Arghezi” Award is the third international award for the poet Arian Leka, who was previously awarded the “Poetic Skepri”, given by the Writers’ Association of North Macedonia and the “Poet of the Poetic Capital of Romania” award 2019.

Meanwhile, the book “Dumb Map for the Drowned” will be published in Greek, Serbian and Macedonian by 2022./p.s./