Tribute to Josef Kalleja

Titled Peripheral Alternatives to Rodin in Modern European Sculpture, a publication that focuses on Josef Kalleja’s works, edited by Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci and Nikki Petroni, has just been launched by Horizons. 

Kalleya is considered to be one of Malta’s foremost modern artists; his art is without comparison locally and internationally.
Committed academic research on the artist and his oeuvre has fallen short of his historical significance, but this book marks a new turn for the study of his radical philosophical and theological explorations  through art.
The publication of this collection of essays coincides with the 30-year anniversary of the newly-titled Department of Art and Art History at the University of Malta, first established by Mario Buhagiar in 1987 as the Art Unit.
The Department has worked ceaselessly for the past three decades to expand the discipline locally and to make Malta’s voice heard on the international scene. As coordinator of the Modern and Contemporary Art Research Programme, Giuseppe Schembri Bonaci has dedicated his life’s work to analysing the recent historical development of Maltese art and its relationship with the wider European...