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Continue readingChaotic Order: Victor Pasmore’s Abstract Art Keeps Beating
It all started with half a thousand books donated to the UM Library in 2018. Then, six years later, your columnist attended an event called Friday Talks, organised by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti (FPM), the guardians of Victor Pasmore’s legacy. And like that, you, dear reader, and I – together, we fall into the rabbit hole of abstract art. From order to chaos. Down, down, down. ‘“I wonder how many miles I’ve fallen by this time?” she said aloud. “I must be getting somewhere near the centre of the earth.”’
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