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Hard-edge and Maltese modernism


In the 22nd article in a series on 20th century artists who shaped Maltese modernism,
Joseph Agius delves into the world of
Harry Alden.
La Pietà
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.  ....

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TARWUK at Martos Gallery | New York - Artforum International


November 13, 2020–January 23, 2021
For their debut exhibition here, the Croatian-born artists Ivana Vukšić and Bruno Pogačnik Tremow who work together as the collaborative entity TARWUK present an astonishing assortment of drawings, sculptures, and paintings that interrogate trauma, violence, and loss. (Their name, according to the show’s accompanying text written by critic Bob Nickas, is “meant to signal an entwining of identity towards a common purpose: four hands, one mind.”) Per Nickas, TARWUK’s art calls to mind myriad sources, including dystopic science fiction (such as the 1982 movies
Blade Runner and
Road Warrior), the visceral phantasmagoria of H.R. Giger and Paul Thek, and, perhaps most significantly, the duo’s experiences living through the Yugoslav Wars, which started in 1991 and lasted for an excruciating ten years. ....

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