Camouflage, Revolution, and Desire with the subtitle ‘drawing from movies’, is a book art project by two visual artists Ruth Bianco (Malta) and Richard Davies (UK), exploring ‘collage upon collage upon collage’ through self-publication.

The project amalgamates art and cinema reinterpreting the collage process through explorations uniting filmic iconography with tactile, spatial and digital media in the graphic fine arts. Memorable stills and frames drawn from a range of cult, new wave and its international influences, and movies notable for revolutionising the cultural boundaries of society and the screen have been freshly reinvented into new visual narratives at the artists’ choice.

Working between Malta and the United Kingdom, Bianco and Davies began working on their project a few years ago, combining their love for film with art, and fusing innovative methods in the contemporary fine arts with new media and digital networks to inspire new prospects in collage and creative ‘post-productions’, as well as enabling ideas to flow and develop between different locations.

The artist-authors have collaborated on previous projects. Ruth Bianco is known on Malta’s art scene both for her independent work and international participation in significant exhibitions, whilst Richard Davies is an internationally travelled artist who has gained recognition through numerous exhibitions and collections.  He is former Director of Fine Art at the University for the Creative Arts in Kent, UK, where the two artists met and worked as artists and academics at the UCA. Ruth Bianco is now Senior Lecturer in Art and Design in the Faculty for the Built Environment at the University of Malta.

The outcome of this joint venture emerges as a seventy-two-page highly visual full colour artistic production. The book is being launched together with a collection of forty framed collage works titled After the Book – drawing from movies, which emerge as a further step in creative ‘post-production’.

Camouflage, Revolution, and Desire had a premiere launch on the 18 July 2012 at The Horse Hospital, in Bloomsbury, London, reputed venue for cutting-edge new media, film and art. The book is available at the Tate Modern London and at the BFI [British Film Institute] London, at the Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK, and the BOZAR shop in central Brussels.

Camouflage, Revolution, and Desire – drawing from movies [Book and Art Collection] will be launched in Malta at the Opus 64 Galerie in Tigne Street, Sliema at 7.30 pm on the 23 November 2012.

The exhibition will run until the 9 December 2012. Gallery hours: Mon to Fri 10.30-13.00 and 16.30-19.00; Sat 10.30-13.00 and 17.00-19.00; Sunday by appointment: [+356] 21323206 / 79496419. The exhibition is supported by the British Council.

For more information contact: opus64@go.net.mt