Studio Antony Micallef
"Art is something that has to be nurtured. Like any relationship. The more you put into it, the more it offers you."
Antony Micallef (1975, UK) is known for his visually charged figure paintings. He builds up a relief-like surface with heavy paint to depict a figurative mass in front of a muted background. By using an impasto technique, the material is pushed to it’s extreme and blurs our reading of painting and sculpture. Confronted with the sheer physicality of the painting as an object, the depicted subject takes on it’s own life and existence.