Naked Body Beautiful at No. 68 Art Gallery
Written by Elizabeth Ayling
Bondage or Bonding? Over to you to debate at No 68 art gallery Valletta
No. 68, the Valletta art gallery that keeps on surprising us, is running an exhibition examining ‘The Life Model’. Subtitled ‘Between Nude and Naked’, the exhibition features seven artists who cover different genre of visual art. It runs until 31 July to coincide with the Malta Arts Festival.
The No 68 programme describes the nude “as a conceptual and artistic category, always involved the notion of an ideal abstracted from the reality we confront in our everyday lives”. The objective of this exhibition is “to engage the audience in public debate and look at the history of our acceptance of nudity and on the bareness of the naked body and how this can sum up everything to which we aspire and everything we most fear”.
So, be a voyeur, visit No. 68 while you can, and size up your own body and ideals, fears and fantasies against the artistic interpretations you find there.
Participating Artists:
Vince Briffa (Malta)
Antony Calleja (Malta)
Jeni Caruana (Malta)
Patrick Dalli (Malta)
Alexandra Pace (Malta)
Astrid Steinbrecher (Germany)
Zygimantas Augustinas (Lithuania)
Artist Patrick J. Fenech is curator for “The Life Model”.
Exhibition runs: 3 – 31 July 09
No. 68, St Lucy Street, Valletta
Monday to Friday – 10am to 1pm & 2pm to 6pm
Saturday and Sunday -10am to 1pm
Admission: Free
See also: No. 68 blog.
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