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64a Flat 1 – new exhibition opens next month at ArtHall, Gozo BY GOZO NEWS · SEPTEMBER 1, 2021  LINK: https://gozo.news/92906/64a-flat-1-new-exhibition-opens-next-month-at-arthall-gozo/   ArtHall of Gozo is preparing for its next exhibition – 64a Flat 1- which opens next month at its gallery in the heart of Victoria. The two artists, Burlo and Lydia Cecil, explained that the unforeseeable events of 2020 led them to a flat in Xaghra. Here they set up a studio overlooking Marsalforn valley that gradually turned greener as autumn moved to winter. Hiding away from Malta and London respectfully, the works they produced were directly inspired by...

Link to Arthall interview by Juan Romero: August 2021 issue (pages 27-29): https://www.culturallyarts.com/modernrenaissance

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6 Art Galleries In Malta You Absolutely Need To Visit by Chiara Micallef Art plays an essential role in our lives — so whether you are looking for an iconic piece to purchase, or you would love to explore Malta’s art galleries for wonderful gems and treasures, on this list you can find an assemblage of amazing art spaces. The galleries on this list range from colourful historical buildings to contemporary spaces. Here are six charming art galleries in Malta that you need to visit. 1. Valletta Contemporary Valletta Contemporary is an independent gallery housed within a former 400-year-old warehouse in...

il- PONT l-Pont (The Bridge) is an online literary magazine originally published monthly since October 2012 by Patrick J. Sammut. Today it’s being published quarterly. It’s main language is Maltese, but poems and other material in other languages – mainly English and Italian – are regularly included too. Il-Pont is intended to bring together writers and readers from all over the world. Link: https://issuu.com/patrickj.sammut/docs/il-pont_marzu_2021_/22?fbclid=IwAR3W9wGJdcMk9CU2Dq_of_hl-bARl8vRn3GUregYhb2Ml8pPzHElVDf7p6c Il-Pont Marzu 2021  

Link to the audio: https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/marta-obiols-fornell-and-tomas-hed/ Marta Obiols Fornell and Tomas Hed By Brainard Carey  – February 9, 2021 Share on Facebook Use Up/Down Arrow keys to increase or decrease volume. Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing list Marta Obiols Fornell is a curator and an art gallery owner in Gozo, Malta. She runs the gallery together with Tomas Hed with a focus on modern, contemporary art. She studied Philosophy in Spain and Germany and also Religious Sciences. Her strong motivation and determination in dealing with artists in Malta, especially in Gozo, has enabled her to launch a number of exhibitions, art...

Link to the interview during the Malta book Festival 2020 with Robert Pisani (interviewer), Mark Montebello (translator) and Marta Obiols Fornell (author):

Link: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/leaving-a-lasting-echo-in-the-readers-soul.833599 Easeful Death written by Marta Obiols Fornell and translated by Mark Montebello, is available from Horizons Easeful Death is a short novel, or rather a long narration, of a little over 70 pages, with a preface by the translator himself, Fr Mark Montebello. The title of the book references a verse from the poem by John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale, “Darkling I listen; and, for many a time, I have been half in love with easeful Death…”     This piece of work by Marta Obiols Fornell, who is originally from Catalonia, Spain but who presently resides...

Online Link: https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/liquid-life-and-death.827110 Liquid life and death 25/10/2020   It’s a Something by Heiko Jörges. Right: Confuso by Heiko Jörges. Thrown into a world where there are no longer ‘solid’ values, where everything changes constantly before it’s even consolidated, it looks like the only way to keep going is to keep moving. Gozo’s Arthall presents Liquid Art, a joint exhibition with artists Luca Indraccolo, Heiko Jörges and Tomas Hed.   SMF•55•15•29•35 by Luca Indraccolo   In his book Liquid Life, Polish sociologist Zygmunt Bauman claims that “Unlike the preceding era of ‘solid’ modernity living towards ‘eternity’ (shorthand for a state...

OUT OF TIME by Marta Obiols Fornell

Link: https://gozo.news/86000/liquid-art-at-arthall-with-luca-indraccolo-heiko-jorges-and-tomas-hed/ Liquid Art at Arthall with Luca Indraccolo, Heiko Jörges and Tomas Hed BY GOZO NEWS · OCTOBER 12, 2020 Arthall Gozo is presenting its next exhibition – Liquid Art – with participating artists, Luca Indraccolo, Heiko Jörges and Tomas Hed. Arthall said that, “Liquidity” means in this exhibition that there are “no holy values to respect, life and death are mixed indistinctly, time is not linear any more. The concept defines a culture of discontinuity that requires constant replacement and generates big amounts of rubbish.” The gallery explained that, “thrown in a world where there are no longer solid values,...