INCONTRI : where art meets science

Abstract

Incontri brings together a group of four artists coming from various disciplines. Emanuele Ventanni and his son Samuele come from Umbertide, a province of Perugia in Italy. They are both visual artists who express themselves in painting and sculpture. Enzo Giummarra, who is a photographer, also from Italy, was born and lives in Comiso (Ragusa) in Sicily. Josette Fenech is a Maltese painter who works and lives in Mellieħa. This collective exhibition demonstrates the artists’ diverse visual, stylistic, iconographic, technical and technological preferences. Part of the concept of this art exhibition is to show and to display a selection of the works by these artists who embrace diverse poetic expressions and interests. In her recent selection of abstract paintings, Josette Fenech is presenting to us works which suggest great contrasts of ethereal light and dynamic explosions of earthy colours. One can interpret these works to the actual explosion of a volcano or a cosmic explosion of matter or it could be a metaphorical ‘explosion’ of ‘feelings’ or ‘sensations’ the artists felt while working on canvas. In this case it is the repressed anger which surfaces to consciousness and this is what actually the artist wants to bring to our attention, that is, what actually is happening to our psyche. Josette’s abstract paintings are a synthesis in which the material world and subjective experience are united. Like the contemporary artist-shaman she strives to combine the spirit and the world of physical reality.