Larger Than Life II

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Larger Than Life II

4m high motorized pendulum, monitor, video projector, 2 VHS players. Curated by Adrian Bartolo - Late assistant curator, National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta.

Norbert Attard’s installation is engagingly concerned with what the academia refers to as the concept of ‘simultaneous times’. On a swinging pendulum sits a monitor which televises a past installation put up by the artist. In itself, the subject-matter of the installation piece being documented was inspired by the works of Mattia Preti (1613-99) a seventeenth-century Neapolitan painter sojourning in Malta for the last forty years of his life, whose tercentenary anniversary of his death is being celebrated this year. That installation drew upon the concept of reinterpreting the past, on giving a new sense and dimension to the baroque artist by transporting him, as if by a magical performance, to our age. The plurality of times represented in the present installation succeeds in making the spectator feel a kind of lack of reality. By its very nature, the pendulum is a symbol of the empirical objectivity of time, but its display in darkness reduces this time to a mere illusion.

Adrian Bartolo - Late assistant curator, National Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta, Malta.[1]

Exhibition

  • 1999: 48th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy.

Exhibition Photos

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