Ismail Kadare

Albanian novelist

When meeting Reshat Ameti’s pictures, the first impression you get is a feeling of freedom; freedom of colors and forms, an interweaving of geometric forms with a contagious spirit. The earth and the sky, the substance and spirit, the achievable and the highest, are not to be divided in art. The static of the reality is enriched by a foggy peculiarity, a variety of dreams. Those who are familiar with the Balkan drama can immediately feel that this artist has been thirsty for freedom; he has woken up from a dream, from a call for freedom. The worry and anxiety that can be felt in his pictures are part of his universe, same as lightened and warm colors blasting as from a crater. It is a mystic and mixed feeling, as critics have characterized it, with a silence of a saint. All this spins and functions around the noble idea of a better and purer world, a world with no hate. In ReshatAmeti’s pictures, critics have noted Albanian, Ilyric and Latin colors, being the safest passport of this art in Excerpts from Critiques  order to be accepted as a European. ReshatAmeti is part of the number of artists preparing and bringing Europe in the heart of Balkan and with the same certainty taking the Balkans in the center of the continent. It is again history of the dream interweaving with the reality: the most beautiful is also the noblest adventure of art.