The National Museum of Fine Arts and the Museo Civico di Taverna (Calabria) recently presented an exhibition of ten works by Italian artists from Calabria inspired by the works of the great Calabrian artist Mattia Preti and purposely produced for this exhibition. The exhibition project is entitled Preti 10×10 Taverna-Preti-Malta.

Ten works each by Maltese and Italian artists were on display in alternate venues in Calabria and the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta.

The exhibiton will now be taking place in Gozo, at the Heritage Malta Area Exhibition Hall, The Citadel, from the 1st of August until the 2nd of Spetember

The paintings that were on display at the National Museum of Fine Arts were purposely commissioned for this exhibition to a number of Calabrian artists by the Museo Civico di Taverna, with whom the National museum has enjoyed close working relationships for, at least, the past decade. Taverna is the birth place of Mattia Preti, whose forty-year stay in Malta in the second half of the seventeenth century left a decisive impact on art in Malta.

Opening hours for the Gozo exhibition will be: Monday – Friday 09.00 – 17.00hrs; Saturday 09.00 – 12.00hrs. Admission is Free.

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