The first time I met Maltese artist David Xuereb, was during the end of May 2017, at his Last Touch gallery-studio in Mosta. At the time David was running his latest art show: Exhibition bil-Bajd! I had become aware of David’s show through an ad which had cropped up on my facebook feed. Intrigued by […]

It is generally held that modern art did not flourish, or developed particularly late in Malta. There are a number of intriguing socio-political reasons for the troubled evolution of modern art locally. In the following discussion, Maltese Art Historian Nikki Petroni shares some insights on this dilemma, as well as other interesting thoughts concerning Malta’s […]

Il- Anġli! was a walk-through performance installation created for Notte Bianca 2017 by Ira Melkonyan and Jimmy Grima, founder members of the performance-art collective: The Rubberbodies https://www.facebook.com/rubberbodies/ Partially based on Michel Serres’s ‘angels-as-messengers’ concept, Il- Anġli! incited the viewer to explore the idea of movement, flux and transition through performing liquids and bodies. Il- Anġli! was performed […]