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Valletta's Market Building 09 10 14 NEWS SPOTLIGHT INTERVIEW Manifesta 13 Emvin Cremona Charlie Cauchi in Marseilles 100 years on Goes Soho No:9 + LISA GWEN ANDREWS €2.00 WHERE SOLD COMMENT Valletta’s Market Building “The stunning and wholly unique (in Malta) British Colonial , 1969, Private Collection, Malta, Photo: Peter Bartolo Parnis. structure, which should be exalted, , 100 years after his birth. rather recedes into the background page 10 amidst the newly- Broken Glass Series added fabric.” Comment, pg 26 , from the ANN DINGLI Untitled (detail) The Invisibility of History toddler is pulling her- Emvin Cremona, Read about this groundbreaking Maltese artist on self up to a shallow, smoothly textured rim – the edge of a INTERVIEW: Gabriel Caruana Foundation NEWS: Helsinki Inaugural Biennale A fountain’s pond – us- DANCE: Rosemary Lee in Malta REVIEW: Tim Walker’s Wonderful Things ing her fingers, palms, stomach, SPOTLIGHT: Remembering Austin Camillieri’s installation from 1999 thighs and knees to hoist her- self towards a body of clear and NEWS: Black Power in San Francisco EXHIBITION: Newly discovered Rembrandt on show seemingly clean water. OPINION: Poussin’s mythology SPOTLIGHT: Egyptian Art Scene >> Pg.33 AVAILABLE FROM Vera Sant Fournier - Interior Design Studio, High Street, Sliema www.verasantfournier.com / (+356) 2745 5567 W Welcome / Team / Inside December ‘19 - March ‘20 Editor-in-Chief Lily Agius he world has gone bananas for artists and the community, as well as We will be back with another issue of (+356) 9929 2488 and Maurizio Catellan has “making contemporary art and creativity as Artpaper in March 2020; until then if Editor taped three of them to the accessible as possible” (page 25). Finally, you would like to get in touch regarding Margerita Pulè Perrotin gallery’s booth at Art Lisa Gwen Andrews comments on the editorial or advertising, contact us Basel Miami Beach, priced at developments of, and disputes over, the by email on [email protected], or Creative Director T $120,000 each – and apparently covered market in Valletta (page 26). call (+356) 9929 2488. 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Assistant Designer Gabriele Spiller travels to Austria to be Nicholas Cutajar There is nothing better than a dose of the awestruck by Swarovski Crystal Worlds art world to help assuage political blues (page 29); Christine Xuereb Seidu discusses Sales Manager and in this issue of Artpaper, as always, we the abundance of noteworthy Egyptian Lily Agius have brought together some highlights from contemporary art that has flourished since (+356) 9929 2488 Malta and around the world to do just that. the 2011 uprising (page 30); Ann Dingli Contributors Giulia Privatelli looks back on the life, work visits Kara Walker’s Turbine Hall installation Alex Bartholomew and legacy of the ground-breaking Maltese at Tate Modern (page 33); Richard England Lisa Gwen Andrews artist Emvin Cremona who was born 100 discusses Nicolas Poussin’s iconic painting, Joanna Delia years ago (page 10); Joanna Delia interviews Et in Arcadia Ego (page 34); Kenneth Ann Dingli the rising star – researcher, film-maker and Zammit Tabona visits Tate Britain’s Richard England artist – Charlie Cauchi about art, love and exhibition covering William Blake’s life Maria Eileen Fsadni cruelty at her latest exhibition, taking place and development as an archetypal printer, Karin Grech at Valletta Contemporary (page 14). Nikki engraver, water-colourist, and lithographer Bruce Micallef Eynaud Nikki Petroni Petroni reflects on the impact and legacy of (page 35); and Alex Bartholomew explores Giulia Privitelli the installation titled Stones, two decades Tim Walker’s exhibition, Wonderful Things, Karen Elizabeth Steed on (page 18); and Maria Eileen Fsadni at the Victoria & Albert museum (page 37). Gabriele Spiller interviews Raffaella Zammit, who continues Christine Xuereb Seidu her father’s legacy by maintaining support Kenneth Zammit Tabona Artpaper is owned / produced by Lily Agius and Chris Psaila [ V ] Publications Supported by / Malta ART NEWS SPOTLIGHT AP Valletta Competition art..e Gallery 06. Nan Goldin showing in London ArtHall Gozo 10. Emvin Cremona 100 years on by Bruce Eynaud Arts Council Malta 06. Dalí work stolen 18. Austin Camilleri installation 20 years on Bee Wise Blitz Edwards Lowell 06. Helsinki Inaugural biennale 30. Egypt art after the revolution Fimbank Go Figure! Can you guess the 3 Fred Perry 07. KAWS showing in Qatar artworks that make up this figure? Gabriel Caruana Foundation Heritage Malta 07. Salcedo wins art prize Send your answers by email to info@ Horizons 09. V&A East new director artpaper.press by 31 December 2019, with Joinwell FEATURE La Bottega Art Bistro ‘Competition’ as the subject, for a chance Lily Agius Gallery 09. Manifesta in Marseille . Loft 13. MUZA open call to win: LogoGrafixExpress Malta Society of Arts 20. Opera Otello at the Manoel Malta Tourism Authority First Prize: MICAS. 21. Rosemary Lee durational performance MUZA A month-pass to all Heritage Malta sites National Archives of Malta INTERVIEWS 22. Vitra Vivendo Workspaces People & Skin Spazju Kreattiv 14. Charlie Cauchi latest work 24. Ralph Lauren x Burleigh Collection Swarovski Second Prize: €20 voucher from Teatru Manoel 17. Q&A Arts Fund Anniversary Unfinished Art Space VeeGeeBee Art Shop Valletta Contemporary 25. Raffaella Zammit Gabriel Caruana’s legacy Valletta Cultural Agency Valletta International Baroque Festival REVIEWS Vamp Magazine Vee Gee Bee Art Shop 29. Swarovski winter wonderland Vera Sant Fournier Vitra COMMENT / OPINION 33. Kate Walker at Tate Modern Vivendo. Workspaces ZfinMalta 35. William Blake mystical world 26. Is-Suq public space contested Supported by / International 34. Poussin mythology & beauty 37. Tim Walker Wonderful Things Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York Centre Pompidou, Paris Chicago Design Biennale Christie’s De Young Museum, San Francisco. EXHIBITIONS + EVENTS Winners from Fire Station Museum, Doha Fondazione Prada, Milan 05. Kolaz Ktiro Collection previous issue: (1) Helsinki Biennale architectural collage Gerri Guadagno has Manifesta 13 Marseille Marian Goodman Gallery, London in San Francisco won a year-pass to all Museo del Prado 05. Black Power Museum Frieder Burda, Baden- Heritage Malta sites 05. Rembrandt newly discovered Baden Nomura Art Award and (2) Katriona 36. International global arts events Tate Britain Tate Modern Grixti has won a Transmediale 38. What’s On visual arts events in Malta €20 voucher from V&A V&A East VeeGeeBee Art Shop No.9__ Artpaper / 02 P E R 09 No.9__ Artpaper / 04 Art News / On the Scene December ‘19 - March ‘20 12 .19 ON the SCENE. “The artist’s job is to be a witness to his time in history.” Robert Rauschenberg ART NEWS COMMENT / OPINION SPOTLIGHT ART SALES DESIGN REVIEW / INTERVIEW BOOKS 03 Newly Discovered Rembrandt on Show A recently discovered Rembrandt will be on public display in a major exhibition showing the early works of Rembrandt. The exhibition runs from 27 February to 01 7 June, and will explore the early years of Rembrandt’s career, beginning with his earliest known paintings, prints and drawings made in his native Leiden in the mid- Architectural 1620s, and ending at his most climactic career moment in Amsterdam in the mid- , c. 1627–8 and 1630s. The largest collection of works devoted to the young Rembrandt to date Collage will be on display, including 34 paintings by Rem- brandt, 10 by his most important contemporaries, Artist Damian Darmanin is and a further 90 drawings and prints from inter- showing an exhibition of his national and private collections. The recently dis- architectural collage work at covered painting, Let the Little Children Come Spazju Kreattiv this Winter. to Me (1627–28), was painted when the Dutch Darmanin – who studied in master was in his early 20s. It was discovered last Florence – creates images year by Dutch art dealer Jan Six and has since , Let the Little Children Come to Me from composites of existing been formally attributed to Rembrandt. architectural photography, converting them into new Young Rembrandt is on show at the Ashmolean and magical hybrids. His Museum, Oxford from 27 February – 7 June work is meticulously built, 2020. www.ashmolean.org Rembrandt and others oil on canvas, 83 x 103 cm, courtesy of Jan Six Fine Art, Amsterdam later, with imaginary emerging from actual, transferring fragments of reality into vir- tual entities. The Kolaz-Ktiro Collection Buildings in Time, runs until 5 January 2020. 02 Black Power on Show An exhibition celebrating art made by black artists during two pivotal decades in the 20th century, when issues of race and identity dominated and defined both public and private discourse, is on show at San Francisco’s De Young Museum. Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963–1983, or- ganised by Tate Modern, includes a focus on Bay Area artists whose work promoted personal and cultural pride, collective solidarity and empowerment, and political and social activism. Honouring the legacy of Black Power in the San Francisco Bay Area, the de Young museum is also hosting a programme featuring re- nowned artists, performers, musi- , 1969, Aaron cians, activists, and civic leaders. Blackboard Soul of a Nation is on until 15 March 2020 at the De Young Mu- seum in San Francisco. www. Cliff Joseph, Galleries, Glenview Illinois, image courtesy of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco deyoung.famsf.org No.9__ Artpaper / 05 Art News / International December ‘19 - March ‘20 FINLAND Helsinki’s First Biennale he inaugural edition of nial 2020 will be comprised of 80% new the Helsinki Biennial commissions and site-specific works. 2020, called The Same Using the setting of Vallisaari to form Sea, will reflect on the the tangible and conceptual starting notion of interdepen- point for the curation of the 2020 bien- dence.
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