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In Paris, on the Boulevard Arago, at the height of a roof, the studio of the painter Omer Kaleshi seems to house a piece of the Balkans.
The artist passed away on Sunday at the age of 90, but his rich legacy contains a series of paintings where something from the history of Balkan drama is conceived.
Numerous portraits of shepherds, dervishes, women or children, who at train stations loaded with baskets of fruit in their hands, rushed to sell to distant travelers. Sad portraits, or the head as he liked to call them.
Omer Kaleshi, always kept an eye on the image of his village Serbica, in Kichevo, was born in an Albanian family and environment of Muslim tradition, took lessons in Serbo-Croatian and Albanian, and then, in the technical school, in Macedonian . After that he completed his higher studies for painting in Turkey, where he was formed as a painter.
With the stories that the portraits and characters carry, they have appeared over the years in various exhibitions around the world, in Paris and London, in Moscow and Athens, in The Hague, Brussels, Istanbul and Skopje, Pristina, Tirana and far away in Kazakhstan.
But what will be done with his rich heritage. According to his friend Luan Rama, there is still no concrete answer. His family heirs are in Turkey and they will decide. Regarding Albania, very few of his works are in the National Gallery of Art and despite the fact that Kaleshi has always wanted a meeting with the former director Erzen Shkolloli to donate some works to Garia, he never received a positive response.
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