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ART, FASHION & CINEMA: 1960 TO TODAYBLOW-UP by City of Art examines how, since the 1960s, image-making has not only documented reality but increasingly shaped and distorted it. What began as cinema reflecting the world around it has, sixty years later, inverted into a filmic reality where images dictate how we perceive truth.
Taking its title and conceptual starting point from Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1966 masterpiece Blow-Up, the exhibition traces the complex relationship between art, fashion, and cinema from the sixties to today. Across four rooms, it juxtaposes canonical artefacts from the decade with contemporary works, posing the film’s enduring, unanswerable question: is all that remains of the real, that which resists being seen?
This is City of Art’s second multidisciplinary project, presented at Spazju Kreattiv. Alongside the exhibition, BLOW-UP extends into a wider programme: a curated film series, fashion and music installations, a comprehensive catalogue, and a range of satellite events including lectures, talks, and curatorial tours.
Take note of two ancillary events:
'In Conversation with Francesca Grima’ - 8th November at 12:00pm, Studio B
‘Academic Seminar & Catalogue Launch' - 6th December at 10:00am, Studio B
Full event, catalogue & seminar registrations and tickets, kindly visit:
www.cityofart.eu
📆 8th November 2025 - 4th January 2026
📍 Spazju Ċ, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta
🌐 https://spazjukreattiv.org/event/blow-up/
🤝 This project is part of the Spazju Kreattiv programme 2025-26, produced by City of Art and supported by Arts Council Malta, Arts Support Scheme, Virgata Group, Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and Ministry for Foreign Affairs and Tourism, Festivals Malta, Deloitte, Farsons Foundation, Holland and Barrett Malta, Charles Degiorgio Ltd, Heritage Malta, MAPFRE, Alberta, The Phoenicia Malta, Base Ltd, Visit Malta, University of Malta, Faculty of Arts, Department of Art and Art History, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Italian. Master of Arts in Film Studies, University of Malta Faculty of Media and Knowledge Sciences, Department of Digital Arts, University of Malta Institute of Anglo-Italian Studies, Helmut Newton Foundation, Karlheinz Stockhausen Foundation, Archivio Joana Biarnés, Fundación Photographic Social Vision, Archivio Tazio Secchiaroli, Archivio Mario Schifano and Spazio Antonioni, Ferrara, Grima Jewellery, Studio Semotan, OstLicht Collection, Studio Dawood, Pandemonium Films, At the Movies, Camera Eye Ltd, Bailey Studio, Edwards Lowell, Trunk Archive, Philippe Garner. Jane and Albert Marshall, Simon Abrahams, Stefano Pocci, Kathinka Pasveer, Anya Camilleri, Lorenzo Agius, Stef Galea, Embassy of France in Malta, Embassy of Italy in Malta, L'Istituto Italiano di Cultura a La Valletta, Embassy of Spain in Malta. Embassy of Germany in Malta, Embassy of Austria for Malta, British High Commission in Malta, Valletta Cultural Agency, Heritage Malta, Festivals Malta, Von Peach & Virgata Group
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Spazju Kreattiv, Our Lady of Victories Church, Triq Nofs in-Nhar, Valletta, VLT, Malta
Tickets
Concerts, fests, parties, meetups - all the happenings, one place.
