Artist PATRICK FENECH is currently participating in a prestigious collective MACHT! LICHT! (Power! Light!) hosted by the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg in Germany, along
Artist RICHARD SALIBA needs no introduction. He talks to Joseph Agius about his current exhibition The Language of Colour at Hotel Phoenicia.
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The 136 apartments will be built in an area where five storey developments are normally allowed.
Unlike previous plans, which were sent back to the drawing board by the Planning Authority Board in November 2020, the new development does not include a supermarket and office space, and is exclusively residential.
The number of apartments will increase from the previously proposed 113 to 136.
The development will also include 327 parking spaces, up from the original 253.
The project is no longer fronted by developer Jean Borg and is being directly developed by San Pawl Tat-Targa Investments Limited which owns Gwejda site.
The company have appointed Edwin Mintoff & Associates as its new architect, and is owned by Virtu Properties Limited and Ziz Limited.
In the 22nd article in a series on 20th century artists who shaped Maltese modernism,
Joseph Agius delves into the world of
Harry Alden.
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Art history has provided us with numerous examples of artists who are defined by a preferred stylistic choice, sometimes trickling into a thematic disposition as well. One can mention Giorgio Morandi and his still lifes that exude musical silence and metaphysical properties, Carlo Mattioli and his ephemeral trees amid minimal landscapes and Mark Rothko and his exploration of the spiritual through the minimalistic reduction of elements. In Maltese modernism, Harry Alden (1929-2019) stands out as being exclusively and almost religiously devoted to the technique of hard-edge.