30/07/2020
Thanks to Fatmira Nikolli and to News24 & Gazeta Panorama Online for the Maria Pacolli's video-interview about the "Tribute to Ibrahim Kodra" exhibition at Liechtensteinisches Landesmuseum 🙏🏾
Full interview:
https://bit.ly/3jQepgx
*Translation below*
It happened at a special time of the pandemic.
We did our best to compile the catalog and coordinate with various museums, including the Musei Vaticani.
Homage because these 20 works show his artistic journey from school to the last work.
Liechtenstein is a small country but of diplomatic, cultural and human importance because they have hosted Kosovar families and refugee during the war.
My husband helped me a lot. I started the first grammar lessons with my husband and then I started reading books in Albanian to understand the finesse of the language.
It is a pleasure for me to be here, in the place where Ibrahim Kodra lived. It is a real joy to see all this beauty that he has immortalized in works.
Albania is a beautiful country, full of culture, architecture, archeology and poetry.
Because the artist with his thoughts can become an ambassador of local culture, as Ismail Kadare or Ibrahim Kodra have done.
We follow the will of Ibrahim Kodra to support young artists.
We did the Città Nuova project with young architects in Kosovo and with young artists from the SOS Fshatrat E Femijeve Shqiperi, Shmap "Adem Kastrati" - Gjilan and others, and with the National Museum of Kosova - Muzeu Kombëtar i Kosovës that we took to Venice and then 5 students from Kosovo went to do the internship.
We want to make a reference point here, a cultural center, with a museum of Kodra, and summer camps where children from the diaspora for example, can come to study the Albanian language, culture, music.
Thanks to my husband who introduced me to his friend Kodra in Milan. He impressed me right away. He is a great painter because each of his works is a visual poem.
Culture is out of politics. An artist, a writer, a composer can become an ambassador of his country and welcome everywhere.
I learned more about the archeology and history of the Albania and I also understood the mentality.
Even with children, in order to learn the language better, we make them listen to fairy tales.
You have to understand the culture of the other, and to respect it. There are also similarities between us, Rita Ora's mother, Vera, speaks Russian well and then I learned that she studied psychology in Moscow.
I know the fascinating story of Inva Mula's mother and father, the Russian pianist and the Albanian composer. They have lived here in difficult times. When they were told that they should separate, Inves's father fought for his love.
And love won and the result is this wonderful artist, who represents the union of two cultures.
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