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| Contemporary Districts #2 : TEL AVIV |
| Main Hall 5 - 21 March 2010 |
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This exhibition is part of the projest entitled: CONFLUENZE MEDITERRANEE - ARTE E CONFLITTI
 The project presents works by contemporary artists with a different kind of expression, origin and cultural background, but united by a strong urge to bear witness to the continuity and the contradictions that have always existed in the Mediterranean region. While constituting the core of the generator in the popular imagination of Western culture, the Mediterranean now appears to be the territory of a common and shared cultural horizon. It is also the context of emergencies and unresolved conflicts, the array of expressive forms linguistically apparent that nevertheless include centrifugal tendencies forces, disruptive and dissonant ideas
The project presents the works of two artists who have worked in the area. They have made this a vital element of their personal artistic research in both in training and for artistic choice, using tools, methods and issues that are often different and conflicting. The Mediterranean is a sea that unites, but this union has always been marked by differences. Territory delines civilization, and also inevitable conflict. What role does the art have in all this? Can the arts serve as a unifying element? What are the future developments? These and other matters are what the two artists will be tackling.
"Contemporary District # 2: Tel Aviv" is the second part of a larger project initiated in 2006 by photographer Giovanni De Angelis. It portrays images of the social changes taking place in several cities of the world, placing young people and their world at the center of his research. The starting point of this journey is the discovery of the most original urban districts inhabited by a humanity which is in constant change. A journey from east to west, where cultures and traditions intertwine.
Having been fascinated by Japan and the eccentric neighborhood of Shibuya, De Angelis presents Tel Aviv, Israel from the great metropolis of contradictions. Tel Aviv is celebrating its one hundred years of political and religious upheaval.
Malta is as an ideal forum to present these two works because of its geographical location, but also especially to its role in history, a history that saw Malta as the strategic outpost not only for political and economic balances, but as a junction and cultural connection between the opposing sides of the a common sea.
Please click here for information about the other exhibition in the project by Pietro Loffredo.
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