[attach id=296007 size="medium"]A self-portrait from Godwin Cutajar’s mirror series.[/attach]

Focusing on a collection of still-life drawings, figure and portrait drawings, paintings from sculptures and nudes, Godwin Cutajar’s recently published The Unfinished Monograph is presented in an uncommon format that follows a scrapbook concept.

The book includes most of the drawings the artist finished during his student years in Rome, between 1988 and 1993, as well as a selection from the nude self-portraits that were executed from a mirror Cutajar had in his lodgings in Rome. The monograph also contains a collection of autobiographical essays.

Cutajar’s monograph is composed of seven groups of coloured pages, which together create a rainbow.

The designs look as if they have been glued to the pages, while the autobiographical essays are printed as if written by hand. Among these is a very short essay that can be read only in a mirror.

The autobiographical essays, toge­ther with the drawings, are described by the artist as “prac­tically” a diary; after his last essay, Cutajar has left some blank pages which evoke a life journey still to be completed, hence the term ‘the unfinished monograph’ in the title.

The Unfinished Monograph has been printed in a limited amount, with each book having one page different from the rest, in order to preserve its uniqueness.

The monograph includes a forward by Prof. Oliver Friggieri.

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