New Collection Exploring The Scattered Beauty Of The Gozitan Island Launching This Weekend
A new collaborative collection exploring the scattered beauty that the Gozitan island brings with it is launching this weekend in Gozo, with the local landscape being the main form of inspiration.
The ‘Whereabouts’ exhibition with artists Debbie Bonello and Andrew Borg behind it, is launching on Sunday 12th June at Il-Ħaġar Museum and Cultural Centre in Victoria.
It is the culmination of a close collaboration spread over the last few years, between these two foremost Maltese artists.
This collaboration has seen them executing paintings, both in-studio and en-Plein air, in Malta and also abroad, including localities like Sicily, Italy, and China.
The composition is made up of two selections of different paintings, joined together showing the different brushwork of the same subject celebrating the unique visual language that identifies each artist.
For both Debbie and Andrew, Gozo had never to date taken centre stage in their career, but for this exhibition their spotlight shifted to focus and target places scattered around the island, highlighting the beauty and vivid colours that make Gozo so spectacular.
These paintings seal moments in time captured on canvas. Both painters spent time in Gozo scouring for views, which may not be totally mainstream but still nonetheless worthy of visualising on canvas.
Regrettably, the rampant over-development phenomenon has also reached the smaller island and this is, in fact, captured in a few of the works exhibited.
This exhibition is about a visual journey for the artists, contemporaneously taken in Gozo, executed in their own idiosyncratic styles.
The collection of works has been created exclusively for the Victoria International Arts Festival’s 25th anniversary.
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