Art-Exhibition

Place of exhibition: St.James Cavalier

Date of visit: 24^th February 2014

Names of Practitioner/s:  Debbie Caruana Dingli - Andrew Diacono –Marisa Attard - Steve Bonello - Moira Zahra – Mark Scicluna – Paul Scerri – Saviour Baldacchino – Kenneth Zammit Tabona

Titles of exhibition: Xebgha Nies

Artist’s work chosen: Kenneth Zammit Tabona -is one of Malta's best known visual artists and illustrators. He is also a popular columnist and reviews Music, Literature and Drama. He supports environmental issues and has a penchant for defending lost causes.

Work 1: ‘Tea Time Stories’

This painting is a caricature and it is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified. I think that the subject here is that the Maltese culture bit by bit is going to lose itself, so he painted this painting to deliver the message that we need to continue on giving attention to our culture and will try never to lose it forever and to bring some nostalgia for the old people to remember some good time in this particular era of the 1956. The colour scheme is very bright colours and medium used is watercolours. There are many details in this paintings on the clothes, vases and other things like the sopra porta. It remains of the caricartures of Daumier’s.

                                                      Work 2: ‘The Acrobat Of Life’

This painting is a caricature and it is showing the features of a simplified subject.  I think that the artist what to show that in life we will be like the acrobat as the title of the painting, that we in life sometimes we need to be like the acrobat that we balance our life in all the things that we do that if you good some bad mistakes we need to do good examples so we will have a balanced life and also have fun all the way long. The colours are bright ones and as we can see there is texture on the draping of the curtain and very detailed other things like eyes and the shadows. The medium used is watercolours. 

Work 3: ‘The Corpus Christi Procession in Valletta’

This painting is also a caricature painting and it is showing the features of a simplified subject. Here the subject is a religious event that all the Maltese people will attend for and the artist what to show that this type of event is part of our culture, so he is making another reference for our culture, and also he is showing some artistic features that the only in Malta we have these artistic features, example the Maltese sculptures on the façade of the house and the event that is happening at that moment that small people know their purpose for this event.

Work 4: ‘The Bach Chaconne’

This is also a caricature painting and it is showing the features of the subject in its simplified. Here is a painting of a young boy playing the violin. The message that the artist what to deliver is that in this modern world with all these technology items that every minute is being invented we are losing this talents of playing the musical instruments, instead we are being lazy by pressing one button and we will listen to a sound of a playing violin, and we aren’t appreciate that we can learn to play this and other musical instruments and crate our own music. The scheme of colours is dull colours and also details are being created in this painting and medium used is watercolours. 

Work 5: ‘Procession & Corpus Christi’

These two paintings are also a caricature paintings and it is showing the features of a simplified subject. Here the subject is a religious events that all the Maltese people will attend for and the artist what to show that this type of events is part of our culture, so he is making another reference for our culture, and also they are types of events that the Maltese people will attend for and the artist is delivering the message that we need to go for these events because we are ignoring our religion culture and we are living in the material world without caring about our religion culture. The medium used is watercolours and small details are there for more interesting features in these paintings.