Kodra practiced discus and hammer throw, without pretending any professional career in sport, since those disciplines were not even present in Albania at that time.

This would change his course of life, and later it would be speculated that he was friend of Prince Tati and part of the royal circle, which was not true, though it never seriously bothered the artist.

Kodra then opened an exposition with Picasso, Henri Matisse, Amedeo Modigliani, Georges Rouault, Dufy and others in the Mostra del Disegno in Chiavari (Italy).

He is the founder of a neocubism admired also by Pablo Picasso, who studied, experimented with, and reworked it, creating a personal metaphysical-geometric aesthetic.

His paintings are composed of elegant geometric figures, which are understood both as a synthesis of reality and as a return to the primordial simplicity of human-produced art, whose features have been passed down in the ancestral culture of Primitivism.