Echoes Of Us All: Maltese Artist’s Art Delves Into Shared Human Presence
Maltese artist, Christian Sammut, is presenting “The Universal Man” art exhibition until 3rd August at il-Kamra ta’ Fuq, Mqabba.
Christian Sammut is a visual artist whose work is rooted in gestural, expressive brushwork across oil, acrylic, and mixed media. Blending figuration with strong elements of abstraction, his practice delves into instinctive, automatic, and subconscious modes of creation, echoing the impulses of early modern human mark-making and the raw expression found in outsider art.
Drawing on the lineage of early human cave art, Sammut pares back the traditions of representation to something more elemental. His portraits, painted exclusively from life, are removed from personality to become universal presences.
Age, culture, and identity dissolve into gestural brushwork and fluid forms, revealing the human being beneath but never naming them. These are not individuals, but archetypes, echoes of us all.
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Alongside these portraits, abstract figures stretch, curl, and fragment across the surface. Limbs, torsos, and silhouettes emerge and disappear in and out of form. Sammut’s use of oil and acrylic is bold and unrepentant, smeared and splashed across the surface with minimal brushstrokes that pulse between fluidity and solidity. There is no fixed narrative, but only the suggestion of a body in motion or the echo of a gesture left behind.
Through the art he created, Sammut questions not just how we represent the human figure, but why we do so at all. The exhibition title suggests indistinction from one another, a shared consciousness, and a visceral return to origin. It is a journey through presence.
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