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EVENT BAROQUE FESTIVAL The Valletta Baroque Festival returns this January
N EW S ACCRA ART WEEK Bringing the international art world to Ghana
EXH IBIT ION LYDIA CECIL Interview with the artist, exhibiting at Risette
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Art is a Bridge “The artist is nothing more than a filter that returns the zeitgeist of his time, but how can this be true if we do not allow ourselves the necessary slowness to experience the reality of our time?” Nicola Martini is a complex artist as a researcher, teacher, and sculptor. For years, in Italy, he has been trying to bring unconventional philosophical reflections to art with metaphysics, alternatives to ordinary life, and often anti-market logics that have nevertheless brought him significant fortune. With him, we inaugurate a series of important interviews with art professionals, curators, and artists, to reflect on the contradictions and resources of the contemporary art world at three hundred and sixty degrees. >> Read the full interview by Leonardo Caffo with Nicola Martini on page 22.
LISA GWEN
Photograph from the ‘Kitchen Series’ by Zvezdan Reljic >> see page 26.
Beyond the kitchen of #3, Panorama Flats
Ja, Ja, Ja!
Zvez had been living in Malta for some three decades. Which is why it is ironically painful and bittersweet that his first proper solo show took place in a mere months before his passing. A show which revealed both a sophisticated and increasingly playful evolution of style in his photography. An evolution which married darkroom analogue photography with graphic design and publishing. >> Extract from an exclusive feature, in remembrance of Zvezdan Rejlic, see page 26.