Talks
- 2024
- Montenegro through the photographs of Marubbi studio
- When the young people of Shkodra began to dream of becoming painters
- Marubi as "writer"
- Felice Beato and Adolfo Farsari: Photographers and Entreprenuers in Yokohama
- Trials as a Museum Experience
- Topography of the sites of memory in Shkoder
- 2023
- Wet collodion: an over 170 years old photographic process
- Alinari Archive: 'The new life' of the world's oldest photographic archive
- Getting to know the Aromanian-Vlach Music
- The brothers Manaki: The Balkan painters of the light
When the young people of Shkodra began to dream of becoming painters
Eleni Laperi
When you start to work on understanding the life of an artist like Kolë Idromeno, you realize how important it is to get the facts right, to know how to separate legend from historical reality, and to avoid the tendency to embellish reality. Even legends need to be grounded in the historical causes that created them.
These are key points that mark the process of understanding and documenting historical, geopolitical, economic, and cultural developments that created the conditions for the first photography studio and the first atelier of Albanian realistic art to open in Shkodra. Only after such a process can one explain why Shkodra was the first to become the cradle of Albanian realistic art, why Kolë Idromeno became the first Albanian realistic artist, and why it would be the young people of Shkodra who would be the first among Albanians to dream of becoming painters.