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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 10 APRIL 2022 7 ART Victor Manduca's latest exhibition features 52 plates celebrating each year of his life 'ONCE Upon a Plate' is Victor Manduca's lat- est exhibition at the Malta Postal Museum and Arts hub in Archbishop street Valletta. Manduca has been dubbed 'culturally equipped' in a review by the Times of Malta, August 2009 as he has been globally stimu- lated. This versitile artist, this time looking, amongst others, to the great masters as inspi- ration; for example Manet's 'Le Dejuner sur l'herbe' and Jan van Eyke's 'Arnoflini Portrait'. In 1996 Richard England said that 'Manduca augurs well for Malta's future art scene'. It is the future now and he was right. Victor's abil- ity to be unassuming and unpretentious yet triumph like a blaze of light shows in his new collection. His ability to create using different disci- plines and mediums, has led him to this col- lection of plates, designed on clay, some un- glazed, others glazed and some a mix of the two. The skill used for engraving on the plates and the use of sgraffito is further demonstrat- ed in the the etching of fine lines and words that often highlight the art work on some pieces. This stunning collection is bold, bright and each plate tells its own story, fifty two plates, each one celebrating a year in Victor's life. The exhibition is open and will run until 16 April. Art Interrupted: an art exhibition exploring the non-finito THE next exhibition at il-Kamra ta' Fuq is its first collective ex- hibition. The artists participating are Mario Abela, Alex Attard, Aar- on Bezzina, Daniel Borg, Ga- briel Buttigieg, Debbie Caru- ana Dingli, Antoine Farrugia and Darren Tanti. Art Interrupted The excitement generated by abandoned, interrupted, or deliberately uncompleted art is so powerful that a stylistic choice known as the Non-Fini- to, the cult of unfinishedness, was created. Various reasons abound as to why artworks are left un- finished whether deliberate or not. Artists may abandon an artwork to move on to anoth- er project to remain inspired or because interest is lost in a particular piece. An artwork can be left un- finished for the artist to make a statement or due to other circumstances which may be totally beyond the control of the artist, such as an untimely death. Another reason is when consciously the artist decides to leave the work unfinished, in order to involve the viewer more. Art does not need to look finished to be complete and meaningful. The Non-Finito holds an ele- ment of fascination, allure and intrigue where the viewer must rely on one's creative imagina- tion to complete the artwork. Il-Kamra ta' Fuq will be host- ing a collective exhibition by selected artists focusing on the theme of incomplete art. The exhibition is curated by Melanie Erixon for Art Swev- en. The exhibition will run from 19th March until 17th April at Il-Kamra ta' Fuq, Mqabba. Lorelei (After Böcklin & Lagrenée) by Gabriel Buttigieg