Joseph Agius talks to artist RAY PISCOPO about his current exhibition, Meandering Realms, at the Cavalieri Art Hotel
JA: This is Ray Piscopo’s third exhi
British author Penelope Lively once said: “To be completely ignorant of the collective past seems to me to be another state of amnesia; you would be untet
Malta’s most beautiful street? Most unchanged, more like it.
Until now, that is: when a street finally gets singled out for the sheer beauty of its architectural impact… instead of (as is so much more often the case) for how utterly and irremediably it has been ruined, over the past 20 years, in the name of greed and short-sightedness
Raphael Vassallo
10 December 2020, 7:00am
A few months ago, The Guardian ran a small ‘interactive’ caption story, under the headline: ‘Unchanging Oxford High Street’.
It featured an early 19th century painting of the street in question, which - upon being ‘clicked’ - melts away into a contemporary photograph, showing the same view from (roughly) the same perspective… only more than 200 years later.