Celebrating Maltese artists and their work, the Malta Arts Council’s RETOLD initiative brings the MALETH exhibition back from the Venice Biennale to its homeland. Featuring powerful works by Vince Briffa and Trevor Borg, this series invites local audiences to engage with themes of identity, refuge, and belonging through contemporary Maltese art.
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Exhibited for only the second time in Malta, at the Grand Ambitions exhibition at the Co-Cathedral of St John, Francesco Laparelli da Cortona’s 16th-century drawings provide us a rare opportunity to glimpse the architectural process behind the creation of Valletta. THINK traces back the journey of these drawings, from their birth in post-siege Malta to their return home, and uncovers the indelible mark Laparelli left on the city we know today.
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Imagine walking into Malta’s National Museum of Fine Arts in 1969, expecting serene saints or picturesque landscapes, and instead finding canvases studded with shattered glass and swirls of cement. Visitors at the time were stunned. Was this really the work of Emvin Cremona, the nation’s beloved painter of churches and stamps? Fast forward to today, and those very works are on display again at the Victor Pasmore Gallery run by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti in Valletta, inviting a fresh look at a Maltese modern art pioneer who broke away, quite literally, from tradition.
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Six Malta-based artists come together to reflect on space as more than place but as process, memory, boundary, and emotion. Their works in painting, sculpture, and installation unfold across the MICAS galleries in a layered, open-ended conversation.
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‘We make place, and our actions influence how place is shaped and develops,’ reflects multidisciplinary artist, Dr Trevor Borg. Place is a multilayered term that has been used in various contexts over the years. While place and space often converge, they each carry distinct characteristics. How do the specificities of place and space emerge through contemporary art?
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‘Fun, exciting and challenging’ is how Federica, NOVA logistics officer, described her undergraduate experience with UM’s Department of Digital Arts. Now in their final year, the Bachelor of Fine Arts cohort, guided by Dr Trevor Borg, is dotting all the i’s and crossing all their t’s in preparation for their thesis exhibition. THINK took the opportunity to talk with a few members of the logistics team to learn what NOVA is all about.
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Following her studies with UM’s Faculty of Media & Knowledge Sciences, Michelle Gialanze conducted her research on the art of remembering through a physical yet still ephemeral archive – postcards. Under the supervision of Prof. Vince Briffa and Nicole Pace from the Department of Digital Arts, she presented her final research entitled: Utilising Postcards to Create an Autobiographical Artefact of Memories of an Event.
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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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The exhibition TNESSID emerges as a captivating fusion of creations crafted by five up-and-coming visionary artists who have embarked on a transformative journey through the Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Digital Arts course at the University of Malta.
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Art invites us to explore the ideas and concepts that govern our daily life. We might take these ideas for granted, but good art startles us, encouraging us to re-examine these concepts. One group of Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) students examine our national identity through their art.
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