“Art in public spaces” is the activity held at the Ministry of Culture, where the winners of the competition for the installations of local and foreign artists, which will be placed in different cities of Albania, were presented.

The Minister of Culture, Elva Margariti, stated that this initiative was designed to be a permanent program, with the artist being at the center of a large group of collaborators.

 According to Margariti, 18 locations were initially proposed and most of the concentrations were in the northern area of ​​Albania.

In the first phase of this competition, 132 competitive projects were presented, a very high number, beyond expectations, and the commission has selected 8 winners up to this phase. Among the winning projects are two Chinese artists, Lio Ruowang with the work of art “Wolves Coming”, the location of which will be at the entrance of Koplik, as well as Zhang Wang with the work “Symbiosis”, which has been found no location yet.

In this event, there were also many representatives from the embassies in Tirana of the countries from which the artists appeared. The Ambassador of the People’s Republic of China in Albania, Zhou Ding, present at the ceremony during a statement for the media, expressed his pleasure to participate in this activity and expressed congratulations for the success of the event and especially of the Chinese artists. “Our two countries have a very lively friendship and this friendship is based on the friendship of peoples. Cultural exchanges can further promote Chinese-Albanian relations.

Traditional Chinese art represents traditional Chinese philosophy, just as the work “Wolves Coming” represents the harmony between people and nature, at the same time, traditional Chinese art”, said Ambassador Zhou.

/Klara Ruci/