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20 hours agoFrom politics to painting: works by Albanian prime minister Edi Rama are new art fair favourites
At this year's Frieze London and Art Basel Paris fairs, many visitors were surprised to find works by an unexpected artist: Albania's prime minister, Edi Rama. Rama-who secured an unprecedented fourth term in May after campaigning to bring Albania into the EU-is also an established artist. Trained at Tirana's Academy of Fine Arts, he spent several years working in Paris before turning to politics in the late 1990s.
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