Landscapes according to three artists

“Of course you can still paint landscape – it’s not been worn out” – David Hockney

E..scapes – the title chosen for the collective exhibition by Wallace Falzon, Patrick Galea and Lawrence Pavia – is a play on words, thus offering different perspectives that the viewer is invited to investigate.

The ‘E’ in the title could refer to ‘electronic’, maybe a nod to the internet jargon that shortens the word into a succinct counterpart, indicating an ‘e’xhibition of scapes. Not necessarily just landscapes but also ‘personscapes’, as encountered in Falzon’s sculptures. Though the introduction of punctuation marks in the title could direct the viewer towards a ‘technological’ interpretation, one could see this collection as ‘escapes’ from the discomfort of the mundane, escapist narratives expressed through artistic expression. 

From left, Lawrence Pavia, Wallace Falzon and Patrick Galea

Falzon’s art is a quest for personal equilibrium. Sculpture allows him to give volume to imaginary and real-life characters whom he categorises as stereotypes that belong to different social strata.

There is a focus on the particular individual in the ‘Giacomettian’ humanoid figure. Unlike the Swiss...