Nobert Francis Attard: Four Olympics + Chronology of Works 1998-2004/ Dennis Vella

Published by NY ARTS BOOKS, New York, USA. Edited by Dennis Vella. Critical Essay by Stanley Borg. Foreword by Tereza de Arruda. ISBN 0-9727451-0-6 2004 During his artistic career, Norbert Francis Attard has used many different media to produce a wide variety of work. Each piece is not so much an isolated work as an individual element of a larger composition which not only speaks to itself but also to its surroundings. This ability can be traced back to his roots as an architect and also be sensed in his previous twenty years of activity as painter and printmaker. His own approach to architecture reflects the everyday human experience – that the conflict between space, form, material and structure controls contemporary existence. “The here and now of a piece of art is reflected in its existence at the place where it stands. In the course of its existence this first impression and nothing else will determine its story and how it is appreciated”.

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