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Sophistikós at ARThALL Victoria Gozo November 12, 2019 Karin Grech, https://www.facebook.com/bwiseaftertheevent A lively gallery scene has developed in Gozo over the last few years. New exhibition spaces are springing up all over the island and every weekend sees at least one or two exhibition openings.  One of the privately run venues is Arthall, a bright gallery space in the centre of Victoria. Arthall specialises in contemporary and modern art, and ‘Sophistikós’, the current show, ties in nicely with its aim to present innovative and provocative art. The exhibition brings together three artists who present their take on sophistication in quite...

Sophistikós, a feast of femininity ExhibitionArt Sat, Nov 2nd 2019, 13:30 Last updated 3 days, 1 hour ago This month, the contemporary Victoria gallery Arthall Gozo presents Sophistikós, a vibrant and thought-provoking exhibition of colourful women underpinned with wit, wisdom and wow-factor, reviewed by art journalist and writer Esther Lafferty. The exhibition includes the work of three artists, Fox Daniels, SJ Fuerst and Tomas Hed, who each consider the dichotomy of the natural and the artificial, and the place of vanity and illusions, in their own inimitable styles. The result is a sassy exhibition which is artistically strong, fresh, feisty and...

Link:https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/vietnam-art-talk-in-gozo.733579 Vietnam art talk in Gozo LifestyleExhibitionGozo 1 days ago|0 FacebookTwitterEmail A talk about Vietnamese art will be held on September 15 at 7.30pm at Arthall in Victoria. Art is taken very seriously in Vietnam. This can be attributed to the country’s ancient traditions, the infusion of the French love for art and the artistic inclination of the people. During the war and after the unification in 1976, artists mainly produced works of socialist realism, painting revolutionary heroes, propaganda posters or idyllic scenes of life under communism. Art collectors Bee Bonniger and Hans Friederich, who lived in the capital of...

Link:https://gozo.news/77711/vietnamese-art-from-the-90s-presented-in-new-arthall-exhibition/ Vietnamese art from the 90s presented in new Arthall exhibition BY GOZO NEWS · SEPTEMBER 8, 2019  Email item  Print item     A A A A A A A An exhibition on – Vietnam Art – had its opening night on Friday at Arthall, Gozo. It attracted a large group of visitors all interested to view the 90s Vietnamese art on display. Art collectors Hans Friederich and Bee Bonniger, who were living in Vietnam during that period, presented to those present, unique figurative paintings from different Vietnamese artists, lacquered art works, ceramics, as well as old traditional puppets from the Hanoi Water Puppet Theatre. The pieces on display...

Link: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/a-side-of-vietnam-often-overlooked.732649 A side of Vietnam often overlooked An exhibition focusing on modern and contemporary art and crafts from Vietnam will be opening on Friday at 7.30pm at Arthall in Victoria. The artworks, including lacquerware, stone carvings, pottery and figurative art paintings, showcase Vietnam’s rich artistic culture and particularly focus on Vietnamese art in the 1990s, a time when the country ‘opened its doors’ to the world. Described as colourful, intense, amusing and, above all, beautiful, the exhibition aims to present a side of Vietnam that is often overlooked. The exhibition, on display at Arthall, 8, Agius de Soldanis Street,...

Thursday, June 6, 2019, 08:41 Gozo through the eyes of foreign residents Smells, sounds, the ferry, tunnel, keep out, birds in danger of extinction, steel jungle, festa, landscapes, churches, bells, pastizzi, hop on hop off, keys, home, beauty, anarchy, opera, culture, money under the mattress… All this is what four foreign artists residents in Gozo see and experience in Gozo and are exhibiting in Ozog at Arthall in Victoria. Tomas Hed from Sweden, Spyke von Stripe from Canada, Christian Mayer and Viktoria Marion from Hungary prepared this collective exhibition trying to catch the singularity of Gozo, which all the beauty...

Link to the new: https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20190420/arts-entertainment/imperfect-and-incomplete-beauty.707745 The Japanese aesthetic concept of Wabi-Sabi ‒ beauty that is imperfect, impermanent and incomplete ‒ is the theme of an exhibition of the same name being organised by Arthall in collaboration with the international pop-up gallery Spright-Art. The artists are displaying sculptures, collages and paintings made with found objects and original mixed media crea­tions. The collection will have a critical approach, questioning what we have been told to see and regard as the ‘truth’. Participating artists include Be J. Birza, Frances R, Fabrizio Fabbroni and Jeroen Hoekman. Hoekman is the co-founder of Spright-Art, and besides working as gallery...

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52: Artistic cravings with a twist by Esther Lafferty In Victoria’s ArtHall, a wonderful airy white gallery space with bright blue doors and windows just steps from it-Tokk, this month as part of an exhibition ‘Erotic Cravings’ (runs until 7th April), there’s a large painting by Tomas Hed inspired by the Greek myth of Leda and the Swan in which the god Zeus, in the form of a swan, ‘seduces’ the young woman Leda. Hed’s paintings are always colourful and characterful with an imaginative backstory. Although the ‘seduction’ is rather sinister in some retellings*, Hed’s painting reinterprets the softer approach to the...

Erotic Cravings: Exhibition featuring 3 artists opens at Arthall in Gozo BY GOZO NEWS · MARCH 9, 2019 The opening of Erotic Cravings – was held on Friday evening in Arthall, Victoria, Gozo, featuring paintings and sculptures. The gallery thanked everyone that attended, describing it as “a night of beauty, sensuality, eroticism and imagination with three great artists: Penny Foster, Tomas Hed and Mark Xuereb.” Penny Foster is presenting a group of black and white nudes. The light shimmers across their forms; one light from above, almost as if she is in a spotlight. Even though it’s a nude, it becomes like...

Craving for sensual beauty A collective art exhibition by three Gozo-based artists – Penny Foster, Mark Xuereb and Tomas Hed – entitled Erotic Cravings, opens today, at Arthall, 8, Agius de Soldanis Street, Victoria, and runs until April 7. The exhibits all aim to awaken visitors’ sensuality; presenting beauty as a craving that even the gods want to possess. Penny Foster, originally from the UK, will display a group of black and white nude paintings; Tomas Hed, originally from Stockholm, Sweden, participates with one masterpiece: a reinterpretation of a classical mythological theme Leda and the Swan; and Gozitan sculptor Mark...