The exhibition titled “In the wake of Caravaggio” has moved to Gozo, following on from the great success in Malta at the Inquisitor’s Palace in Birgu, it is now on show at St. Michael Hall and St. John Hall the Citadella Center for Culture and Arts in Victoria until the 21st of October 2012.

For this occasion the curator of the exhibition Adél Stahlmayer-Kardar introduces to the Maltese and international audience Tamás Cserna, a contemporary artist from Hungary, whose latest paintings are reputed to be inspired by the works of Caravaggio; the famous baroque artist whose memory is engrained in the Maltese art history and within the museums of Malta.

Tamás Cserna was born in1967 in Budapest, Hungary. In 1995 he got an MA degree from the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, MA Visual Education Programme: specialised in teaching artistic drawing, art history and projective geometry in secondary schools. He was a pupil of Pál Gerzson, Márton Magyari and Tibor Kiss.

In 1993 he was invited by his former university teacher, Professor Laszló Patay who is well-known in Hungary for his large sized mural paintings to paint the frescos of the Saint Elisabeth Church in Békéscsaba and the Catholic Church in Ráckeve, where he had the opportunity to learn about the different techniques of wall-painting.

In 1995 Tamás established a workshop called Giornata specializing in mural paintings, which is very active all over in Hungary ever since. Tamás Cserna currently works as a freelance painter and undertakes teaching jobs at several Universities all over in Hungary.

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