Abstract works in BoV exhibition

Bank of Valletta yesterday inaugurated its 10th in a series of exhibitions devoted to Malta's foremost contemporary artists.

The exhibition at the bank's head office in Sliema features 56 works of art by Alfred Chircop.

Mr Chircop (b. 1933) is best known as an abstract artist. His work is not simply limited to that genre of painting, for it has grown successively from the first training which he received at the Malta School of Art (1944-1960) under the tutorship of Edward Caruana Dingli, Emvin Cremona and Karmenu Mangion, to that at the Accademia Pietro Vanucci in Perugia, the Bath Academy of Art at Corsham in UK (1960-61), and the Accademia di Belle Arti in Rome (1961-64).

His techniques and media include drawings, paintings, watercolours, etchings and aquatints, lino cuts, pen and washes, and monoprints exhibited at a substantial amount of solo and collective exhibitions, both in Malta and abroad.

The curator of this exhibition is Emmanuel Fiorentino and the exhibition remains open to the public till December 31.