Il-Hagar Museum has revealed details of its next temporary exhibition: a ”landmark Guzeppi Briffa retrospective bringing together a large cross-section of works – no fewer than 110 – by this remarkably prolific artist, presenting his talent across its many facets.

These include his work for churches, his assured draughtsmanship, his painterly sensibility, and his intelligent engagement with popular culture.

Curated by Dr Christian Attard and structured around six thematic anchors, this exhibition proposes that Guzeppi Briffa’s work occupies a complex mediating position, straddling an intersection that remains, on the one hand, shaped by a late 19th-century demand for clarity and readability and, on the other, by an emerging desire to question the status quo and challenge visual conventions.

Reluctant Modernism: The Art of Guzeppi Briffa is being presented in the context of the 29th edition of the Victoria International Arts Festival, and will be inaugurated on Sunday, the 21st of June, at 11am.

The museum said that everyone is invited to the official opening. The exhibition runs until the 8th of September and can be viewed during the museum’s opening hours of 9am to 5pm, Monday to Sunday (including public holidays). Admission to Il-Hagar is free.

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