Valletta – The collective City of Art, composed of visual and performance artists, curators, and researchers, has opened a new exhibition in Malta exploring the transformative dialogue between art, fashion, and cinema from the 1960s to today.
Hosted at Spazju Kreattiv in Valletta and open to the public until January 4, the exhibition titled “Blow-Up” examines how image-making has evolved over the past six decades — from documenting reality to actively shaping and distorting it.
Borrowing its title from Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 masterpiece, the exhibition reflects on how cinema once mirrored the world around it, while in today’s hyper-visual culture, images themselves define our perception of truth.
Across four distinct galleries, Blow-Up juxtaposes iconic artifacts from the 1960s with contemporary works, revisiting Antonioni’s timeless question: What remains of the real once it resists being seen?
The exhibition brings together works and objects connected to or featuring figures such as Helmut Newton, Christian Dior, Andrew Grima, Andy Warhol, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Joana Biarnés, David Hockney, and Sylvia Plath, among others.