American artist, Justin Amrhein, will be presenting the second chapter of “The Maltese Diptych” titled “3D Blueprint Network: Malta Test Station” which will be available for viewing until 15th August at MUŻA.

“This public installation is a first for MUŻA, marking the institution’s debut presentation of a large-scale contemporary sculpture within a civic space.
Amrhein’s intervention transforms the cityscape, inviting spontaneous engagement from passers-by and redefining the boundary between institutional space and public realm,” said Amrhein in a statement.

Amrhein’s work is generally based on environmentalism, drawing attention to our increasingly precarious climate crisis by using machine-based language and aesthetics. While rooted in drawing and painting, Amrhein’s work takes on many forms, adopting the appropriate medium to realise the concept, such as video, sculpture and collage.

In the Test Stations project, Amrhein continues to evolve a global, speculative system of environmental machines imagined through detailed mechanical schematics and metamorphosed objects.

At the heart of Malta Test Station is a striking architectural dialogue: a contemporary, minimalist echo of the 18th century Baroque triumphal arch found within MUŻA’s courtyard. Installed in Pjazza Jean de Vallette, directly outside the museum’s side entrance, this imagined environmental machine, both sculptural and schematic, becomes a speculative twin to the original arch.