The Search for a Space consists of five shows curated by Mark Mangion. Each show will take place in a different location. Each space will be used as a lab for challenging new structures of showing work and creating an off model in all senses.
The themes in these shows will act purely as a catalyst where movement and loose interpretation will take place so as to neutralise the theme as a benchmark. The theme is merely a starting point.
Thursday May 31st – Sunday June 3rd
Museum of Fine Arts, South Street, Valletta
Opening Reception – Thursday May 31 at 7.30pm
Open Discussion – Saturday June 2 at 11am
Opening Hours - Thursday – Sunday 9am – 5pm
In Forbidden Spectacle, a series of contemporary works in various media will be juxtaposed against the Museum’s 17th and 18th Century Painting Galleries.
The works shown will not necessarily have a direct relationship with the individual paintings or the collection as a whole. A series of chosen works relating to the Forbidden Spectacle will attempt to engage the existing works in a double-layer exchange within the space; one of comfort and conflict, history and progress, the idle and the rapid, the dark and the luminous.
Beauty and violence; representation and the decay of the figurative; notions of reality and artifice relating to the media and web structure of filtration and exchange; the other and cultural appropriations and the romantic void associated with this; the viewer and the subject as an accomplice to the creator.
Relationships of speed within the gallery structure and the work itself will be addressed within the framework of the show. Through minimal interventions, the Site-specific, Performance, Film & Video, Painting, Drawing, Photography and Sculpture, the works will be scattered around the galleries in search of insertion. A painting from the collection in each Gallery will be removed to allow for this intrusion to take place with determination.
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Rupert Ackroyd (UK)
George Attard (Malta)
Ruth Bianco (Malta)
Martin Bonnici (Malta)
Nat Breitenstein (Finland)
Vince Briffa (Malta)
Jessica Brouder (Canada)
Austin Camilleri (Malta)
Karen Caruana (Malta)
Dustin Cauchi (Malta)
Tatiana Echeverri Fernandez (Germany)
Ann Kathrin Greiner (Germany)
Anthony Haughey (UK)
Carrie Levy (USA)
Jed Lind (Canada)
Peter Maltz (Israel)
Mark Mangion (Malta)
James Micallef Grimaud (Malta)
Pierre Portelli (Malta)
Jaume Sabater Garau (Spain)
Kris Sant-Fournier (Malta)
Martina Schmuecker (Germany)
James Swainson (USA)
Raphael Vella (Malta)
Elysa Von Brokdorff (Malta)
Brindalyn Webster (USA)
Douglas White (UK)
Michael Whittle (UK)
was born in England and obtained an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London in 2005. He lives and works in London.
Rupert’s work deals with founds objects of all types, which are then transformed into delicately collaged sculptures. He creates clever harmonious sculptures, which resist any pinned down meaning.
is an artist and Senior Research Fellow in Fine Art at the Interface Research Centre for Art Design & Technologies at the University of Ulster, Belfast. His work has been exhibited, published and collected internationally. The installation Resolution, was recently acquired for the permanent collection of Wolverhampton Art Gallery and opened to the public in March 2007. His recent publication and installation, Disputed Territory is the culmination of his project on post-conflict countries in Europe, including Ireland, Bosnia and Kosovo.
Recent exhibitions include, Infected Landscape at Julie Saul Gallery, New York and most recently the installation, Postcards From Mosney, at Belfast Exposed Gallery, which is part of an on-going collaborative art project with a group of asylum seekers, currently housed in Mosney, a former Butlins’ Holiday Camp near Dublin.
was born in England in 1977. He obtained a BA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London. In 2005 he was short-listed for the Jerwood Sculpture and Drawing Prize. He was also awarded the Deutsch Bank Pyramid Award. Recent exhibitions include Lilith and Cannibal Ferox at Paradise Row in London.
Doug’s Sculptures are made out of peculiar everyday objects, which are found through extensive observation and searching. They are often leftovers of some kind of accident or event. He aggressively but with great respect dislocates them and relocates them within an Art context. They are transformed, recycled, from their initial habitat and function to one of inspection using a quasi-forensic eye.
They are often loaded with the subtle remains of a violent act, blurring the lines between the beauty of the transgressed object and the act itself whether by human or natural intervention.
was born in England in 1976. He obtained a BA from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee and an MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art in London. Recent exhibitions include Miniature Worlds at the Jerwood space in London, Schema and The Topology of Being in New York and his forthcoming solo show at Daniel Cooney Fine Art in New York. Michael lives and works in London.
Michael’s pen and ink drawings use a minimal line to create other worlds with astounding draughtsmanship. At first glance these large-scale images seem flat and illustrative. On closer inspection, however a structured and coded narrative world of scientific and philosophical questions reveals itself within the fragility of his line and space.
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