Now showing at the Victor Pasmore Gallery, IN SEARCH OF LINE is Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti’s latest exhibition which explores the nature of the line and how it has manifested itself over time, a subject that has challenged, inspired, and intrigued artists over many centuries. Through this selection of works, mostly of Maltese twentieth-century artists, such as Josef Kalleya, Alfred Chircop and Gabriel Caruana amongst others, as well as some works from the Victor Pasmore collection, the exhibition, designed by FPM Creative Director Michael Lowell and curated by Sarah Chircop, also from FPM, dives deep into the artists’ drive to create and represent images, meanings, and emotions through line. A fully illustrated exhibition catalogue accompanies the exhibition, featuring essays by prominent artists, art writers, and philosophers, including Matthew Attard, Robert Brewer Young, Vince Briffa, Richard England, Giulia Privitelli, and Michael Zammit.

The reflective, poetic piece penned by the curator, introduces the three main sections of the catalogue—the line’s manifestation in invention, gesture, and movement—which, in turn, correspond to the flow of the exhibition itself. The point-form structure and seemingly
fragmented ideas, gradually combine into a consistent narrative, deepened by the essays of the various authors, each written with an independent rhythm inspired by the highlighted artwork.

Inviting, yet inconclusive, these essays are intended to act as guides, mere signposts, along an imaginative, visual, sensorial journey in search of the concept, expression, and legacy of line, through stunning examples of Maltese art history.