Client

Blitz Valletta

Year

2019

Deliverables

  • Art Direction
  • Book Design

MAIN TENANT is a three-year residency programme in book form, published by Blitz Valletta.

The studio was tasked with the art direction and design of this milestone publication for Blitz Valletta. The title chosen for this publication embodies the ethos of the Residency Programme, whereby the resident artist becomes the main tenant for a given period of time, while she or he develops new work that is relevant to a contemporary discourse – the ‘now’, or maintenant as our French neighbours would say. The title also extends to the approach of this printed object. Rather than showing a retrospective and chronological document artistic production, the artists were all invited to come together to create a collective artists’ book. The pages carry writings, traces, musings, poetry, images, new works or developments by resident artists, some even years after their tenancy at Blitz.

Texts: Mick Finch, Borbala Soos, Alexandra Pace, Nikolas Ventourakis, Craig Shuftan & Lani Bagley, Nicole Bearman, Margerita Pulé, Konrad Buhagiar, Rachel Baldacchino. Cover: Maria Gauci and Margaret Pace, 1965, Oxford Photo Studio, Paola.

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