Tiers of Truths by Rupert Cefai (@ ChristineXgallery Sliema) - Exhibition

~ Something about the exhibition - In general

As I can see, Rupert is inspired by everyday life, as the scenes he painted are events during the day where the main activity is the busy life in the busy roads as some backgrounds shows parts of Vallettta and London. 
His paintings represent different moments as some paintings shows a beggar in the street, other shows people crossing the road, people helping other people and another shows someone alone doing something.
Cefai creates an artistic way where he express his feelings about the stories he might heard or an event that have caught his eye, where he interpret it on a canvas 

These subjects reflects his pleasant subjects where he interprets the human figures blended with abstract landscapes where he gives me the impression that he is trying to put people's thinking between the real and the imaginary

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 This art work is done with different media, it shows a beggar in the street as I mentioned before, the human figure is mixed with abstract background  as in the background it shows like it's in Valletta where in middle right top part there are two domes.

It gives me a strong panicking feeling as it's a busy painting with bold red colour, where he even adds blue next to the beggar where it gives a sad feeling as blue is a cold colour and the beggar makes you feel guilty maybe for our waste and beggars are dying in hunger/thirst. I guess that the artist is trying to send a warning about the world's poverty where all over Europe the top news at the moment are money crisis.
It gives me a strong panicking feeling as it's a busy painting with bold red colour, where he even adds blue next to the beggar where it gives a sad feeling as blue is a cold colour and the beggar makes you feel guilty maybe for our waste and beggars are dying in hunger/thirst. I guess that the artist is trying to send a warning about the world's poverty where all over Europe the top news at the moment are money crisis.

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Alice - Rupert Cefai - 90cm x 90cm

Alice ? - Rupert Cefai - 90cm x 90cm

        This art work is made with different media, it shows a little girl playing/doing something alone as I mentioned before, the human figure is mixed with abstract background.
   It gives me a distracting feeling as it's a busy painting with dark colours, where mixes bold patchy background in green, black and white apart from the touch of yellow, red and skin colour to the figure.     I guess that the artist is trying to send a warning about the bullying, where the figure looks lonely doing something alone or maybe a message to take notice of some one else who might be alone and in solitude and help them out as they might not be capable of handling things situations.

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Lord of the Fight - Rupert Cefai - 90cm x 90cm

        This art work is made with different media, it shows a group of people helping each other as something might occurred during this event, as I can see there might have been an accident. 

   It gives me an exciting feeling as it doesn't really show what really happened so one might be dying of curiosity. But as I might think that something bad happened here 1) the title says 'lord of the fight' maby theres a badly hurt person and nurses are helping him to fight his life and 2) the artist used warm colours which represent a warning especially the use of red. He again mixes bold abstract background in touch of cold colours of green, black, white and yellow apart from the touch of yellow, red and skin colour to the figures.

 I guess that the artist is trying to send a warning about awareness to help each other as one day everyone would be in need of another and nobody have to think only about themselves.

                                                                                                                                                                                

Street life 1 - Rupert Cefai - 50cm x 50cm

      This art work is made in mixed media, it shows a group of people crossing the road. 

  It gives me an exciting feeling as it's a busy picture where the artist once again mixes human figures with an abstract background. Although it's busy, one can still concentrate on the art piece, where Rupert chose to paint in one point perspective where it's the person in the middle of the art piece in red. 

  With no doubt, Cefai is showing in what a world we're living in, as time runs by and waits for no one, yet to make money to live today everything is becoming in a hurry and in the same time in a confusion.