Artists Mario Abela and Justin Falzon discuss their current exhibition at Arte…Gallery, their experience of painting together and their reflection and exploration of life and death. Eve Cocks [EC]: So how long have you known each other for? Justin Falzon [JF]: Since 1997 or 1998. Mario Abela [MA]: Definitely since sixth form, and we’ve been […]

How is the scale of contemporary development and construction affecting our lives, physically and intellectually? How is public space being defined and shifting patterns of social interaction? These crucial questions are being addressed by the exhibition Fluid Space, a project organised in collaboration with the Gabriel Caruana Foundation and Spazju Kreattiv as part of the […]

Eve Cocks [EC]: Tom, is Except for Access Only your first solo show? Tom van Malderen [TvM]: It is indeed, and it is also my first opportunity to work in an official institute, under the capacity of what people would call an artist. My prime occupation for many years has been working as an architect […]

If you get to read about an artist’s life, almost any artist’s life – whether it’s Claude Monet’s, Paul Cézanne’s, or Pablo Picasso’s – you will notice that each and every one of them share one thing in common: they all pass through stages of artistic development. Whether their stylistic evolution is conditioned by their […]

THE SNAKE SHOW is a contemporary art exhibition curated by Bettina Hutschek for FRAGMENTA MALTA. Through a combination of snake-related artworks, research materials, archival objects and other interesting curiosities, the exhibition incites the viewer to dig deeper into the symbolical potential of the snake; to reflect upon the cultural beliefs and practices related to snakes […]

In the following discussion, Gozitan-born artist Maxine Attard and Umberto Buttigieg (one of the founding members of the Gabriel Caruana Foundation) share a few more insights on Maxine’s second solo-exhibition: IN BETWEEN OBLITERATIONS – held at the Mill: Art, Culture and Crafts Centre, Birkirkara, from 29.12.2017 until 28.01.2018. Eve Cocks: Maxine, in the exhibition introductory […]

Here’s a sneak peek of Ryan Falzon’s latest exhibition: CULTURE IS PAST, ART IS FUTURE. Launched during Valletta 2018 opening week, the exhibition comments on Malta’s “current approach towards culture being used as a tool for preservation and conservation, rather than as a step towards an evolved realization of current practices.” CULTURE IS PAST, ART […]

There were quite a number of exhibitions held in the past month, and IMPRINT III: INTAGLIO A CREATIVE TEXT was certainly one to remember. In the following interview, artist-print maker Jesmond Vassallo and I discuss this memorable exhibition: its print collection, participants, theme, collaborators & more. For those who have missed it, iMprint III was […]

The first time I had laid my eyes on Nicholas de Piro’s modern art collection was about five years ago, when I had just started working at his 16th century Palazzo Casa Rocca Piccola. I remember he and his wife Frances had invited me to tea in their private quarters, whose walls, I will never […]

From Graphic Design to Fine Art, here are some of my top favourites at this year’s ICA Festival. For those who haven’t yet heard about the latter, in a nutshell, the ICA Festival was the annual undergraduate degree show which featured work from graduating students across MCAST’s Institute for the Creative Arts (ICA), Mosta. The […]