Ghawdex Illum Feature

This feature, by Citadel Video Communications, was aired Saturday 20th October on Ghawdex Illum, TVM. A big thanks goes to the Ghawdex Illum crew for the quality and standard of both the filming and the script.

Artitude Gallery - artistic/ cultural social evenings

Artitude Gallery in Tigne Street, Sliema is now open for artistic/ cultural social evenings every Monday and Thursdays, at 8pm onwards. These events are being sponsored by Delicata wines and entrance is free. These events are aimed at promoting art and culture by raising interest in what contemporary Maltese artists have in store for us and by creating a network of artists from every artistic field.

Kicking off the list of events is the 'Contemporary art (installation and conceptual) discussions' with top contemporary artists like Ruth Bianco making their appearance. Ruth Bianco, who holds a PhD in Fine Art (University College for the Creative Arts/University of Kent at Canterbury, UK), is a visiting lecturer at Universities both locally and in the UK. Her work involves time based and other combined media, installation, video and sound, photography, drawing and research. She shows her work internationally and also teaches private groups in preparation for specialist art studies overseas. (www.ruthbianco.com)

The public is invited to attend this evening on Monday 26th November to meet and talk with our contemporary artists and discover what they have to offer. For more information, please call Artitude on 21316708 or 99844653.

Clusters - Joseph Farrugia

Last Saturday, at art...e Gallery artist Joseph Farrugia opened his latest exhibition titled Clusters.

The artist has participated in various exhibitions over the past twenty years and his most recent exhibition was held at the Palais des Nations in Geneva in June 2007. Farrugia has taught Art and Art History to Sixth from Students and is currently the director General of the Malta Employers' Association.

The paintings will be on display at art…e GALLERY, Gozo until the 8^th of December 2007. for more information you can contact the gallery on 21557911 or 99804774.

The Curtain Falls

Last Friday morning I have gone to Gozo to pick up the paintings from art…e GALLERY. “C – an exhibition of paintings” is officially over and now I can concentrate on other things. I really hate dismantling exhibitions, specially after long events such as this. After 5 weeks going to Gozo every weekend I got quite used to it. I just love the island. Maybe I’ll plan another event there.

Talking about events, at the moment I am planning a couple of new projects, one of which will be announced soon, so let me get back to work.

.

Roots of a Village - diptych - 80x40cm each panel

Are you a specialist?

Zebbug 60x40 2007

Lately, on two different blogs, one by artist Matt Lamb, the other by Sunil Gangadharan on Art & Perception, the issue if to specialize or to generalize was discussed. What should an artist do, limit his subjects and choice of media or experiment in different directions with different materials and subjects?

On a matter of principal, I do not understand why one has to exclude the other. I think that an accomplished artist needs both in his career; the notion of the Renaissance man still holds, even today. People like Leonardo, Bernini, and Michelangelo etc were capable of being good at more than one discipline, so why not adopt the same approach today?

On a practical level, I realised that I follow certain patterns when it comes to my work. I find myself going through periods of experimentation and then long phases of specialisation. There are two reasons I do this; firstly because at a certain stage I find myself exhausting a particular style/subject so I need to change and secondly if I do not experiment every now and again I am afraid that my work will become stagnant and does not evolve.