contemporary art

The Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts has recently opened an individual exhibition on Rana Begum (b. 1977), a contemporary artist with a growing international reputation. Spanning the last decade of her production and featuring over 25 works, this is her first solo show in a museum.

Il-Warda Tar-Riħ

Truth||Lies exhibition, photo by Alexandra Pace

Herman Bashiron Mendolicchio: Can you please tell me about the history of Blitz, the history and description of the space, your personal involvement and role, and explain the context where is located?

(page from leaflet by Sonya Schönberger, distributed during Fragmenta event FIELD TRIP, January 2017)

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The loudspeaker system of the ferry terminal announces in a solemn female voice: “There is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown”.

“Chance is always welcome in the work I aspire to do, I enjoy random encounters, and I had plenty in Gozo and I was lucky to include some into the work. The people and their outlook and enthusiasm to life and the other has dramatically and positively contributed in the development of the work over the 6 weeks I spent between September and November 2016. I look forward to launching the exhibition in the government of Gozo April 8^th 2017 and to see the mothers again after a while!”

EKHO, School of Performing Arts, University of Malta 2017. Photo by Rafael Mielczarek

Gandolfo Gabriele David’s work reveals the ontological necessity to establish an ethical and political dimension of hospitality between cultures and societies in contemporary artistic production. This ontological necessity has led his interests to reflect on hospitality as the modernist idea that encourages all human beings - regardless of their political affiliation - to be (or attempt to be) citizens in a single community, taking into consideration topics such as immigration, diaspora, and negotiation of identities, David increases the importance of the analysis on the problem of t

Imprescindible en la historia del cine, de la fotografía y de las artes visuales en Brasil, Arthur Omar es un artista autentico y multifacético. Su inquietud ante el arte y los medios técnicos lo llevo a hacer aportaciones sustanciales, desarrollando nuevos modos de pensar y producir cine y fotografía ya a partir de los años 70.