{"id":7286,"date":"2023-11-03T19:18:44","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T19:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/2023\/11\/03\/agim-zajmi\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:52:03","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:52:03","slug":"agim-zajmi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/2023\/11\/03\/agim-zajmi\/","title":{"rendered":"Agim Zajmi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Agim Zajmi, scenographer, costume designer, painter, People&#8217;s Painter, professor, passed away in Tirana. He was born in Tirana, on November 28, 1936, in a family that moved from Peja in 1920. He headed the &#8220;Jordan Misja&#8221; Artistic High School and attended higher studies at the &#8220;IE Rjepin&#8221; Institute of the Academy of Arts in Leningrad (1957-1961). From 1961 scenographer at the Opera and Ballet Theater and the National Theatre, then lecturer at the Academy of Arts. His 40-year creativity includes more than 250 productions in scenography, such as &#8220;Cuca e maleve&#8221; (&ldquo;The girl of the mountains&rdquo;)(1967), &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Gjenerali i ushtris&euml; s&euml; vdekur<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&#8221; (&ldquo;The general of the dead army&rdquo;)(1972), &#8220;<\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">Familja e peshkatarit<\/span><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&rdquo; (&ldquo;The fisherman&rsquo;s family&rdquo;)(1974), etc., from the national dramaturgy; &#8220;Romeo and Juliet&#8221;, &#8220;Twelfth Night&#8221;, &#8220;Luiza Miller&#8221;, etc., from world dramaturgy. Agim Zajmi has over 300 achievements in costume design. The main characteristics of Agim Zajmi&#8217;s scenography are: supporting the dramatic work, breaking down its philosophy, creating the necessary space for the actor&#8217;s play, which allows him to functionally organize the stage action; the use of metaphor, the special role of lighting and finally costume design. His scenographic language is poetic, which is why he is also called a stage poet. As a painter, Agim Zajmi showed an early tendency for the historical theme, which later characterized almost all of his creativity. His painting is as conventional as it is subject; symbolism and metaphor are embedded in it, the detail is found in such a way , to express a general thought, this is necessary for the work of figurative art. <em style=\"mso-bidi-font-style: normal;\">(In the photo: Agim Zajmi)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Text:<\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\"> <em>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/em>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2971-2972.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Photo: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">&copy; <\/span><span lang=\"EN\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kinematografia-shqiptare-sporti.com\/piktori-i-popullit-agim-zajmi-1936-2013\/\"><span style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\">https:\/\/www.kinematografia-shqiptare-sporti.com\/piktori-i-popullit-agim-zajmi-1936-2013\/<\/span><\/a><\/span><span lang=\"EN\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif;\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNoSpacing\" style=\"line-height: 115%;\"><strong style=\"mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;\"><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">Graphic processing: <\/span><\/strong><span lang=\"SQ\" style=\"font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; font-family: 'Calibri Light',sans-serif; mso-ansi-language: SQ;\">AHCF<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Tirana, Agim Zajmi, a scenographer, costume designer, painter, People&#8217;s Painter, and professor, passed away.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-vdekje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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