As part of this year’s edition of the Victoria International Arts Festival, Mark Sagona is exhibiting recent paintings at Il-Hagar – Heart of Gozo Museum, in St George’s Square, Victoria.

‘Inner Impulses,’ was inaugurated on Friday evening by the Minister for Gozo Dr Anton Refalo, and introduced by Professor Conrad Thake, of the Department of History of Art, University of Malta.

In his latest collection of paintings, produced since the conclusion of his Ph.D. in mid-2014, Mark Sagona finds a synthesis of his artistic journey. These new works are the fruit of the artist’s recent painting research which brings together the language of his earlier abstracts and landscapes with the more expressive and energetic brushwork of his later abstract paintings.

These compositions are recent mutations of a continuous inner, spiritual impulse which is charged with the magic of light, the sensuality of colour and the stability of form.

This is the ninth solo exhibition for art history lecturer Dr Sagona, and the first one in Gozo since 2006.

Opening hours for the exhibition are 9am to 5pm (13 June to 10 July) and 9am to 10pm (11 to 18 July). There is no entrance fee.

Photograph: MGOZ/George Scerri

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