{"id":8172,"date":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1970-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/alush-shima\/"},"modified":"2025-10-15T18:53:18","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T18:53:18","slug":"alush-shima","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/alush-shima\/","title":{"rendered":"Alush Shima"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alush Shima, film and costume painter, was born in Tirana. He attended the Artistic Lyceum &#8220;Jordan Misja&#8221; and studied and graduated at the High Institute of Arts (1965). He worked as a model painter in the artistic company &#8220;Migjeni&#8221;. In 1966, he started working at the film studio &#8220;<i>Shqip\u00ebria e Re<\/i>&#8221; as a costume painter and created the costumes for 11 films. From 1979 to 1990, he made 15 films as a painter, including: &#8220;Koha e larg\u00ebt&#8221; (\u201cDistant time\u201d)(1983); &#8220;Kush vdes n\u00eb k\u00ebmb\u00eb&#8221; (\u201cWho dies on their feet\u201d)(1984); &#8220;Hije q\u00eb mbeten pas&#8221; (\u201cShadows left behind\u201d) (1985); &#8220;Dhe vjen nj\u00eb dit\u00eb&#8221; (\u201cAnd there comes a day\u201d) (1986) etc. In 1990, he opened his first solo exhibition at the National Art Gallery with 210 works (most of them created since 1967, but not exhibited until the establishment of pluralism); in 1994 he opened the second solo exhibition &#8220;Ankth&#8221; (\u201cAnxiety\u201d) with 86 works, the themes and subjects of which were the stigmatization of the communist dictatorship (also these, works created during the period 1970-1991, but unpublished). He has participated in several international exhibitions such as: in England, USA, France, Switzerland, Greece, Malta, Turkey, Israel, Hong-Kong, Singapore, etc. He continues to create painting on canvas in two-dimensional art. He was the director of the National Art Gallery (1994\u20131997) and a member of the Albanian Parliament (1996\u20131997). <i>(In the photo: Shima&#8217;s work &#8220;Flowers in a blue vase&#8221;, oil on canvas.)<\/i>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 3 <\/i>, Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2009, page 2457.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>https:\/\/harabel.com.al\/alush-shima\/&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alush Shima, a film and costume painter, was born in Tirana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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