Welcome to Christopher Saliba's Official Website
Throughout these recent years, artist Christopher Saliba has built a reputation as one of the most authentic talents emerging from the sister island of Malta (E. Fiorentino, 2003).
Christopher Saliba’s diverse work - painting and drawing, etching, sculpture, video, installation and photography – deals with evocative meditations on time as well as physical and psychological limits. Saliba’s wide-ranging oeuvre also displays a preoccupation with the dualisms that define the complex nature of human existence: spirituality and materialism, surface and depth, mortality and eternity. Saliba develops these paradoxes into experimental and conceptual works that can be figurative and abstract in form. His energy and inventiveness, and his consistently visually arresting works has made him a leading artist of his generation.
For Saliba, a pile of stones can be visually stimulating as the most significant painting or sophisticated video. What really matters is the strong presence the object created acquires; it has to traspire a profound thought or a strong feeling and transcend the trivial images we are constantly bombarded with. Whatever the theme or content of his works, the intent is always to represent the essence of spiritual energy that comes from deep inside. You, as an active participant, are invited to relate with his works and interpret them accordingly. Thank you for showing interest and hope you enjoy viewing this site.
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Christopher Saliba, Paul Carbonaro, Gabriel Caruana, Charles Cassar, Paul Vella Critien, Pawlu Grech, Raymond Darmanin, Brian Grima.
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Christopher Saliba showing his works to Prime Minister Dr. Laurence Gonzi, Ms. Kate Gonzi, Hon. Giovanna Debono, ex-speaker of the House of Representatives, Dr. Anton Tabone and Hon. Dr. Mario De Marco during events organised in 2008. |
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