A local exhibition open in Sliema is set to explore ideas related to the increase in virtual and urban environments on a local scale.

Virtuality, by JP Migneco, incorporates grid patterns as metaphors for models of built environments and digital landscape simulations. His work is interdisciplinary in its very nature, with geometry, colour theory and landscape painting all being incorporated into his work. The artist developed each and every artwork by reinterpreting natural landforms found across the Maltese Islands, through the use of three-dimensional grid structures obtained from photographic references.

He then took the structures and used them as a framework to apply shapes and tonal values, thus creating a sense of motion and time. “These representations have been adapted to reflect ideas of the separation between human culture and nature in an increasingly complex technological world,” said the artist.

Migneco’s first solo exhibition, 2018’s Chroma Terra, reinterpreted landscape topographies using stereoscopic colours and now, Virtuality.