di-ve August 3 2005
Beyond - An Art Exhibition at Heritage Malta
by di-ve.com
Wednesday, 03
August, 2005
Antonella Grima (imw.1982) is exhibiting a choice collection of paintings in ink
and washes at Heritage Malta in Merchants Street, Valletta.
'Beyond' (25 works) will be inaugurated on Saturday August 6, 2005 at
7.00p.m. The apt
title that refers to inter-stellar space -- the magic subject that has inspired
her, could refer to the space itself or to her dreams, her future. Antonella is
a self-taught artist and considers her work as 'outsider art'.
At the age of 23 Antonella is organising her first personal exhibition after
having participated in a number of collectives during the last four years mainly
encouraged and helped by the Malta Society of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce.
Antonella Grima has recently qualified in medicine and is actually a certified
doctor. Her current exhibition is quite meaningful as she might exploit her
artistic therapeutic talents to ease the stress and tension of her professional
responsibilities.
Our boundless universe, inter-stellar space, exploding nebulae, the Milky Way,
planets, suns, moons and shooting stars inspire her related works. Antonella
tries to reach the heavens with her mind's eye, sensitive hands and dexterous
brush-strokes. Her transcendental approach to the universe explicitly warns
materialists that the answer to our continuous search for truth lies in simple
things around us such as an evocative or suggestive sunrise or sunset, a velvety
flower, a warm smile, a kind gesture. There are no answers but the explorative
journey itself -- the mystery, myth and magic that is life itself. It might be a
divine struggle but the simple answer to obtain peace within lies in the beauty
of creation, in the poetry and music in nature.
Antonella uses ink and washes. She uses wax on paper as a stencil to achieve
brilliant whites as an etcher does to 'stop in' and 'stop out' ink on his plate
with varnish according to necessity. She is a graphic artist and uses strong
contrasts of black and white, of dark and light in works redolent with poetry of
soft delicate blues, dark obscure blacks and shining luminous whites. Antonella
might break into colour soon.