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COMMENT The role of art in the #MeToo movement
DESIGN Enzo Mari’s timeless lessons
EVEN T S Highlights in Malta and around the globe
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Art too!
Detail from Reconciliation Reredos. Graeme Mortimer Evelyn. >> pg.27
Art has always played a fundamental role in revolutions, and artists have always been on the forefront of every major philosophical and sociological upheaval. Interestingly, when it comes to the plight for gender equality especially but certainly not only on the local scene the artistic community and the art market have often been perpetrators rather than vehicles for change. Renaissance female painters had to pose as men, muses were treated like prostitutes, sketched, painted, and sculpted by men for men to buy and enjoy – even today, more than 80 per cent of work in commercial galleries are by male artists. >> Comment, pg.18 ANN DINGLI
Consented Subversion
NEWS Podcast mini-series by Malta Creative Collective EXHIBITION Photographer Amelia Troubridge at St James Cavalier PHOTOGRAPHY New book by Daria Troitskaia INSTALLATION Valletta school flies Nico Vascellari’s flag OBITUARY In memory of Ed Schembri Q&A An exhibition of clubbing photographs by Charlene Galea INTERVIEW The role of contemporary art in historic contexts OPINION Kenneth Zammit Tabona wonders where the beauty has all gone COMMENT Caravaggio and other self-marketing magicians of today . SPOTLIGHT Artist collectives in Mali NEWS MUZA launches call for exhibitions and artists in residence REVIEW A touring show for German artist Philipp Fürhofer DIRECTORY List of creative services in Malta
“When I did the Stations of the Cross for Gloucester Cathedral, my pitch to the Dean was that I’m a practising Buddhist, but I would like to make the Stations accessible to atheists, by subverting the Christian message,” he explains, describing his work around the stalwart art historical and biblical subject, exhibited at Gloucester Cathedral Cloisters during the period of Lent 2006 in 2007. “I wanted to stretch it apart and make it a human journey of the cross by adding another station of my own – a secular audience would then be interested in that, whilst at the same time recognising the subversion”. Interview, pg. 27
Privat: Natural Body as a Fiction, Charlene Galea in collaboration with Jana Frost
Does the Maltese artist stand up to be counted?