Three Women by Adam Kastrati (1930-2000)

Adem Kastrati (1930-2000), 'Three Women', mixed media on canvas, signed and framed.

Adem Kastrati belongs to the first generation of post-war figurative artists who lived and created works in Yugoslavia. Kastrati is one of the doyens among Albanian painters in North Macedonia, the country where he lived and created for more than forty years.

Kastrati was born in 1933 in the village of Karačevë in Dardana, Kosovo, in a large generous family, with patriotic and education-loving activities. His family was known from his father on this side, but also from his mother's side from Dajkoci (his uncle was the political dissident and patriot Metush Krasniqi). Painter and teacher of figurative art, literary creator, collector , the marker and publisher of the popular treasure, the analyst of Albanian-Slavic and Euro-world relations. The stormy times in which he grew, matured and formed as a painter left a big mark on his artistic practice.

Kastrati's paintings, based on the tradition of realist mimeticism, present direct sequences of the human figure and the animalistic world, often in harmony with their similarities and visual illusions.