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Solo Exhibitions
2009 – “Il Suono dell Silenzio”, Upper Galleries, St. James Cavalier Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta.
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Collective Exhibitions
2009 – “8th National Art Competition & Exhibition”, The Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta , Malta .
2008 – “9th Edition of the Silver Palette Competition and Exhibition”, The Malta Society of Arts, Palazzo de la Salle, Valletta, Malta.
2007 – “The Antiques and Fine Arts Fair & Exhibition”, The Westin Dragonara Resort, St.Julian’s, Malta.
2007 – “The Bicentenary of the birth of Giuseppe Garibaldi Art Exhibition”, L’Istituto Italiano di Cultura, Valletta, Malta.
2005 – “Institute of Art and Design Student Exhibition”, St.James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Valletta, Malta.
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Local Exhibitions
12 September - 25 October 2009. The 3rd Malta-Cyprus Ceramics Exhibition. St James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Upper Galleries. Valletta, Malta.
The Malta/Cyprus Ceramics Exhibition is a continuation of a series of exhibitions which started in May 2004. It has been held every two years, yearly alternating between Malta and Cyprus. This year it will be held in Malta. This exhibition will feature approximate 81works from a total of 27 ceramists from both islands. Different ceramic media will be exhibited namely, earthenware, stoneware and raku and will highlight the dfferent techniques, styles and expressions of the individual ceramists using a common medium, clay.
6 November - 13 December 2009. “Il Suono Del Silenzio” by Jean Karl Izzo. St James Cavalier, Centre for Creativity, Upper Galleries. Valletta, Malta.
This debut exhibition, by Jean Karl Izzo entitled “Il Suono del Silenzio’’ (The Sound of Silence) will consist of a series of works produced from ideas developed within the past four years. This exhibition is a clear explanation of the artist’s forte – his sense of space and creating art out of a vacuum. The artist, as creator, gives value to the void. The spaces in Izzo’s art constitute the main attribute to create that unique element of identity immediately beyond the threshold of the exposition gallery. With this action, the viewer will find himself in a dimension where everything is part of the infinite artistic universe. Even spaces become an intrinsic element of the artistic process, from the space around the works of art, to the entire environment surrounding the spectators. The aura of the expositive area, with its own particular history and the artists’ living presence in the building can only enrich and complement this upcoming exhibition.
The art exhibited, will consist of works on canvas, board and paper using paint and mixed media. In some of Izzo’s works, the form is developed individually (in 3D) and then juxtaposed to another form or line on the canvas. By using this technique, the artist adds character and gives a life and different perception to and about the form. In this way the artist also gets to know his forms and spaces better and bond with them. Jackson Pollock said ‘the painting has a life of its own’ and in this case the forms created by Izzo from spaces, have a life of their own.
This series of works of art is a result of a minimal artistic approach where the artist strips down detail from nature, architecture and landscapes, leaving us with the essential: line, colour, and form, to create these reductive yet complex works of art.
International Exhibitions
12 June - 20 September 2009. ‘’Futurism‘’. Tate Modern, London, England.
Tate Modern celebrates the centenary of this dramatic art movement with a groundbreaking exhibition. Here you'll see the work of the Futurists accompanied by rooms looking at art movements reacting to Futurism, including Cubism, the British art movement Vorticism, and Russian Cubo-Futurism. Highlights include Boccioni's dynamic bronze sculpture of a man which seems to leap through thin air, Picasso's Head of a Woman, Nevinson's Vorticist masterpiece Bursting Shell, and works by major artists such as Braque, Leger, Malevich, and Duchamp.
18 February - 31 December 2009. “Masterpieces of Futurism”. Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy.
In the centenary year of the publication of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti’s founding manifesto of Italian Futurism, this special installation in the permanent galleries of the museum focuses on the Futurist masterpieces of the Gianni Mattioli Collection, with additional paintings, sculptures and works on paper from the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and other private collections. This small but mighty presentation includes iconic paintings by each of the five artists who signed the Technical Manifesto of Futurist Painting in 1910, Balla, Boccioni, Carrà, Russolo and Severini, and by other artists related to the movement (Rosai, Sironi, Soffici). A preliminary section alludes to related contemporary avant-gardes (Divisionism, Cubism, Orphism, Vorticism). (Umberto Boccioni, Dinamism of a Cyclist, 1913, Gianni Mattioli Collection)
24 Settembre - 30 Ottobre 2009. “La giustizia e i suoi simboli”. Palazzo di Giustizia, largo Marco Biagi - 20122 Milano, Italia.
28 opere di Basil Beattie, Mitsuo Miyahara e Aldo Rota, che dialogheranno con i capolavori presenti nello storico edificio disegnato da Marcello Piacentini.
13 September – 12 April 2010. “Monet's Water Lilies”. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA.
The Museum of Modern Art presents an installation that will, for the first time since the Museum's reopening in 2004, feature the full group of Claude Monet's late paintings in the collection. These include a mural-sized triptych (Reflections of Clouds on the Water-Lily Pond, c. 1920) and a single-panel painting of the water lilies in the Japanese-style pond that Monet cultivated on his property in Giverny, France (Water Lilies, c. 1920), as well as The Japanese Footbridge (c. 1920–22) and Agapanthus (1918–19), depicting the majestic plants in the pond's vicinity. These paintings have long held a special status with the Museum's audiences and, much like the MoMA's Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, they provide a modern oasis in the center of midtown Manhattan. These works will be complemented by a few loans of closely related paintings.
2 October 2009 - 21 March 2010. “Mark Rothko: The Seagram Murals”. Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England.
In 1988 Tate Liverpool opened it's doors for the very first time with a memorable display of Mark Rothko’s The Seagram Murals. Over 20 years later the series will make a welcome return to the gallery. From 2 October 2009 – 21 March 2010 Tate Liverpool's ground floor gallery will be transformed into an emotive display of these nine significant paintings – the walls will be painted grey according to Rothko’s specifications and atmospheric lighting will enhance the dramatic qualities of the works. Perceived, as the artist intended, in reduced light and in a compact space, the subtlety of the layered surfaces slowly emerges, revealing the solemn and meditative character of the works-one not to be missed.
7 June 2009 – 22 November 2009. “La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy.
For the art aficionados, the city of Venice during its Biennale exhibition becomes what Mecca is for the Muslims during the Ramadan. You have to do the pilgrimage at least once in your lifetime, and if you do it once, it is very likely you’ll do it again. Well, now is your chance. The 53rd edition of La Biennale di Venezia opens its doors on June 7 and for the next six months –until November 22- its two main exhibition areas, Giardini and Arselane, will be receiving thousands of art enthusiasts from all the corners of the world. The theme title this year is Fare Mundi/Making Worlds, and as the Biennale’s director, Daniel Birnbaum, explains it was chosen because this is an event “driven by the aspiration to explore worlds around us as well as worlds ahead”.
14 May 2009 – 04 April 2010. “Between Metaphor and Object”, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland.
An exhibition from the IMMA Collection, featuring sculptures and installation works from the 1990s, is on display at the Irish Museum of Modern Art until April 4, 2010. Between Metaphor and Object provides new perspectives on the diversity of practices represented in the IMMA Collection from this period, explores its particularities, and considers them in the context of international trends of the decade.
18 September 2009 – 06 January 2010. “Picassos’ of Picasso”, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland.
One of the most extensive and ambitious exhibitions that has been organized on Picasso to date, bringing together hundreds of works from the artist’s private collection and those he never wanted to lose, the so-called “picassos” of Picasso, is coming to Helsinki –the only Scandinavian capital to have this honour- for an unprecedented exhibition, which has taken art lovers by storm. All the works on display at the Ateneum Art Museum exhibition (from September 18 to January 6) are coming from the collections of the Musée National Picasso in Paris and had been on show last year at the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
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