Bujar LUCA was born in Tirana. In 1978 he graduated in painting at the Higher Institute of Fine Arts in Tirana. From 1977 to 1990, he worked as a scenographer and costume designer at "Alba Film" in Tirana.

Bujar Luca is among the most important painters of Albanian painting, who after the 90s, is the author of many solo exhibitions such as: COD - Center for Openness and Dialogue, Tirana (2023); Galerie Babel, Paris (2022); Musée Pera (2020); Galerie Le Purgatoire, Paris (2019); MACA Museo Arte Contemporanea, Acri (2018); Galleria Zabert, Turin (2017); National Art Gallery, Tirana (2015); Salle des Fêtes Mairie du XIV-éme, Paris (1999); Lucernaire, Center National d'Art et d'Essai, Paris (1993); Galerie Cobra Brussels, (1992); Tour Eiffel, Paris (1992), Galerie Gérard Rambaud, Paris (1991); Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland (1990).

Bujar Luca is the author of two poetry collections "Oniromancie", published in France and "Couleuronymy", published in French-Albanian in Albania. In 1979, 1981, 1985, he won the first prize at the Albanian Film Festival as Costume Designer. In 2008, he was awarded the Ambassador of the Nation medal by the President of the Republic of Albania and in 2006, he was awarded the Silver Medal of the Richard Lounsbery Foundation by the Academy of Architecture in Paris. Since 1990, he lives and works in Paris.

On the attack to become glorious
Acrylic on canvas, 161,5 x 69,5 cm, 2006

The conceptual approach:

This painting brings us as a vision, the absurdity of ambitious and vain desires to be higher than the other, to impose on them at all costs. Appearance becomes more important than being. The most boastful, the most selfish, the most proud, the most stubborn, the most pretentious, the most arrogant, etc. have climbed to the top. This picture is made to remind us of the saying borrowed from Ecclesiastes: "Everything is vanity".