Death

German artist Gregor Schneider is planning the ultimate performance piece: showing a person dying as part of an exhibition.

“I want to display a person dying naturally in the piece or somebody who has just died,” he told The Art Newspaper. “My aim is to show the beauty of death.”


I always thought of art as a reinterpretation of life, whatever that may mean. I cannot see the 'reinterpretation' in this though.

What is Art?

A few days ago, I received an email with a link to Sotheby's which showed estimate bids of some pieces of art valued at exorbitant prices. Here is the LINK. I have always been fascinated by what people are ready to pay (or not) for the sake of owning a piece of art. Most people would not even consider these works as art let alone pay those prices. Personally I am not ready to spend hundreds of thousands for an art piece for one simple reason, I do not have that kind of money. But what is exactly art? What qualifies as art and what not? This video might help to find the answer.

CoE 2008 Malta Workshop

This past week there was the Council of Europe teacher training workshop held in Malta. Being the European year of Intercultural Dialogue, this year's workshop focused on the topic. A number of local and other European teachers attended the workshop which started on Tuesday and ended last Friday. As a memento for the occasion, the participants received a signed print of one of my studies of the Grand Harbour Valletta (above). The image was also used as a backdrop on stage and for the cover of the official program.

Jeni Caruana @ Heritage Malta

An exhibition of paintings by Jeni Caruana entitled “Treescapes……..Lifescapes” will be open to the public from Monday 21^st April until Friday 16^th May at the Heritage Malta Head Office, Merchants Street Valletta. The collection includes ink studies, watercolours and acrylics, ranging from the purely anecdotal to semi-abstract, expressing the artists’ emotional reaction to and feelings about recent events in her life, using trees as her motif. The venue is open weekdays from 9am to 4pm.

more info at www.jenicaruana.com

Mr. Big

Earlier today, someone said to me.."but your paintings are big". Now, most of my works measure 70x70cm to1.2x1.2m. It's not really small I know but not what I would consider big.

David Hockney has just donated to the TATE his biggest painting, Bigger Trees near Warter. The oil painting, which was executed en plaine air, was made on fifty canvas panels measuring in total 12.2x4.6m. Now that is what I call BIG!