Name of Practitioner: Paul Scerri
Title of Exhibition: Xebgħa Nies
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'Who am I?'
Medium used: 3D work in Ceramics
What I have found interesting in this 3D sculpture is the meaning of the key and the question that is asking 'Who am I?'. This can be very philosophical and one can see many different aspects in it. The artist has left us with a question without an answer.
Many thoughts passed through my mind about this sculpture, so original. The key on her wrist is the answer to it all. If one looks through the key hole who knows what one can see?
The lady has no eyes, from this the artist lets you free to a wide imagination. As eyes can lead you to a lot of emotions and feelings.
The way the artist has structured the figure is very simple. The dull colour of this figure represents someone not able to react.
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'A Taxidermist's dream' - Stuff them all before extinction
Medium used: 3D work in Ceramics
Here the artist is representing a figure with a beak mask on his face. My first thought when I looked at the sculpture and looked down to the given name that says 'A Taxidermist's dream' is that the figure is imitating an animal because he would like to be it or another thought that came up in my mind was that he would like to gain as much as he can for the collection before they will be all gone.
On the figures chest one can see four other beaks that may represent the nest or may represent the passion for that particular animal.
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'The Braggart' - Open your Mind before your Mouth
Medium used: 3D work in Ceramics
This sculpture has a good lesson from it's meaning of the given title 'The Braggart', after that it also says -Open your Mind before your Mouth. This is leading us to a significant meaning not to show-off or not to have bigmouths in other words. Sometimes people talk before they think and that can be effected both as an advantage and a disadvantage action, but in this case the artist seems like he is directing it to the viewers to make us more conscious about it.
Thoughts and Comments:
I found this artists work interesting because every sculpture has a good meaning and faces the reality of the society around us. The artist exhibited these sculptures with an action and a hint of what it is about in the title. Each and one of them lead you to an open imagination, as the artist didn't specify what each of one is there for. Everyone can answer you with his/her different thought and opinion of what they think about it. I really enjoyed my time there in the exhibition studying, analyzing and took my time thinking why is it there? what is the artist trying to say? and so much other questions that I tried to figure them out myself.
I particularly chose three from seven sculptures because I've seen that those were the most three that caught my eye and seen something particular in them that helped me to develop further more my imagination and might create something else in the future from his influences by the Maltese artist Paul Scerri's work.
From Scerri's sculpture works that have been worked in ceramics I only experimented with glazes and forms. One of the forms I created was a sphere made in ceramics which is a beginning or a start of creating the head of a human body like in this theme of the exhibition shows the characteristics with half bodies, then they have the finishing touch with different coloured glazes. There are some that have the shine on them which is called oxide and part of them are matt that will be covered only with glaze.
Date of Visit: 05/03/2014
Name of Practitioner: Emannuel Bonnici
Title of Exhibition: Eccentricks
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'Duo'
Medium used: Wood and Paint
Here we can see a creative functional work influenced from an old Maltese traditional cart developed into another old wooden swinging chair which reminded me of my grandmas. This artist created lines everywhere some are straight, some are curved and others are round.
The cart wooden rims on both sides has some curved design lines that attracts ones attention as they look like spikes.
The scale of this cart is of a big man size (in my opinion). The colour is green which relaxes ones eyes the minute you see it, makes you feel calm and confident. Although it is designed with lines, they all continue and make sense one next to the other.
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'Duo'
Medium used: Wood and Paint
This is another duo that means it's 2 in 1. Here we can see a WC formed in another Maltese traditional fishing boat called 'Luzzu' with the eye in front that signifies to have a safe journey.
This is quite original and something that is designed differently using traditional objects.
The colours used are almost the same like those of the 'luzzu' with blue, brown, yellow, white and green.The size of the WC is of a large scale, the artist here wanted to impress with exaggeration of the normal human size objects.
Thoughts and Comments:
This artist has exhibited an original enthralling work. He linked everyday Maltese traditional 'objects' with another object which he combined them together and created something original using an artistic mind. His work inspired me from using exaggeration in his craftsmanship work .
Bonnici's work is with wood. The techniques I used from his work is the colour and finishing. I applied the colour on wood with spray to come neater and then used the undercoat + the base coat for a fine finish and gloss.
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