Captivating Ceramic Art Exhibition in Mqabba
Captivating Ceramic Art Exhibition in Mqabba
C’est La Vie, a solo exhibition by ceramist Joseph Agius will run from 20 January till the 12 February at Il-Kamra taâ Fuq in Mqabba
The solo exhibition by ceramist Joseph Agius focuses on various aspects of life. C’est La Vie, the exhibition title, is meant as a tongue-in-cheek or sarcastic comment to highlight the alienation that we are surrounded with and the âlaissez-faireâ way of life that we are so used to live in.
The aspects tackled are various and originate from different strata of life as well as from different countries. The theme focuses on various rules, attitudes, and different social âtraditionsâ, along with serious social issues, including migration, poverty, genocide, and injustice.
The sculptures presented in this collection are all executed in ceramics, a signature medium for Agius who has been working with this medium for over 30 years and all the artworks come with very evocative titles, which is very typical and expected of Agiusâs provocative works.
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About Joseph Agius
Joseph Agius, a senior staff nurse at FairyLand ward for the past 30 years, started out as a hobbyist in ceramic sculpture and is now established as one of Maltaâs foremost ceramists. His profession as a nurse exposes him to a world whose fabric can include pain, disease,
despair and death. World news is also a source of inspiration. Thus he tends to favour a social neo-realist aesthetic. Joseph chooses linguistic metaphors and figures of speech as springboards for his creatons, so the titles of his works have a metaphorical origin which he subsequently interprets as a narrative in clay.
