Water and wine

The miracle of Cana, when Christ turned water into wine, has been adopted by artist Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci to depict that transformation and taking it further to signify the passage from death to life.

This was Dr Schembri Bonaci's interpretation of the theme Water And Wine given to a symposium to be held in Germany between July 12 and August 18.

The artist was invited to the symposium by the Regensburg Art Forum under the Ministry of Culture to participate in an international art symposium. Speaking of the installation he did for the symposium, Dr Schembri Bonaci said: "In this work, I visually challenge the concept of transformation, transfiguration and metamorphosis. In this way, I am trying to visually depict the concept itself, the concept of transfiguration-transformation, on its own".

He illustrates this concept by means of 10 wooden panel gradation of colour, from the sick yellow hue to the subtle vibrant rendition of a cadmium red.

A canvas depicting the exact moment of the qualitative change, the Bohr leap - Bohr was the scientist who found out that in an atomic structure the electrons bounce around its orbit creating light - the voyage is placed between the yellowish gradation and the red evolution.

"The central panel manifests the moment of this qualitative leap from the yellow gamma onto the red," the artist said.

The workshop-exhibition will be held at the City Gallery Leerer Beutel, Regensburg and is curated by Renate Christin.

Germany, Belgium, Romania, France, Spain, Slovania and Hungary are participating. Dr Schembri Bonaci will be taking part with other artists including Philip Geist, Agnes Peter, Valerie Buffetaud, Gabriel Brojboiu, Anamaria Baciu, Johann Jascha, Gloria Zoiti and François Monique.