‘Malta Oskura’, an art exhibition at Casino Notabile
The Dark Malta Music Festival is an underground festival which promotes Gothic, Industrial and Metal music. The festival is organised every year by local DJ Hades, Rene Farrugia. For the second year running, the festival was accompanied by a visual arts exhibition, Malta Oskura. Rene met up with the selected five artists, namely Joseph Bugeja, Luca Cauchi, Jennings Falzon, Franco Navarro and Sara Pace to create artworks that pertain to the theme of Darkness. The works consist of paintings, designs, prints and sculptures. They focus on dark elements from Maltese mythology, folklore and everyday life. ‘Dark’ signifies elements of horror, fear, discomfort and death. Apart from their meaning, the artists have, on purpose, chosen darker coloured palettes, sharply painted lines and materials that evoke this sense of fear, such as barbed wire and the texture of prickly pear leaves.
The festival took place at the Gianpula festival grounds, where the exhibition was set up next to the main stage. Local and international bands and DJs played for three days from the 21st to the 23rd of April 2023.
The art exhibition was launched as a
standalone event on the 29th of April and will be running for two weeks until the 14th May at the Casino Notabile, Rabat, Malta. It was inaugurated by well known writer and journalist, Ramona Depares.
Entrance to the exhibition is free. It is open daily from 17.00 pm to 20.00 pm and during the weekends from 10.30 am -13.00 pm and then again from 16.00 pm -20.00 pm.