A selection of recent ceramic sculptures and studies on paper by artist Victor Agius have been exhibited in an international show held at the Galleria S. Eufemia in Venice, which closed this weekend. He exhibited alongside three other foreign artists, Elena Mutinelli, Nejdet Vergili and Marco Zanusso.

Victor Agius studied at the University of Malta and got a degree in Art (2000-2004). He furthered his studies at MCast under ceramist George Muscat, at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Perugia, Italy (2008) and at the Central Saint Martins College for Art and Design in London where he followed the course Contemporary Fine Art Practice (2011). Agius works in painting, sculpture and installation. Raw clay, ceramics, stones, straw, twigs and branches, earth, natural pigments, oils and acrylics are some of the elements that Agius uses to create his bodies of work oriented around formless matter.

Some of his solo shows were held at the Opus 64 Galerie in Sliema and the Auberge d’Italie in Valletta, and internationally in Lago Maggiore and Florence, among others. He has also participated in several notable group exhibitions held at the Arte Padova Art Fair 2011, at the Long Room Gallery at Oxford University, at the Centre Culturel Christiane Peugeot in Paris, at the Bricklane Gallery in London, at the Museum of Modern Art in Santo Domingo and at St James Cavalier in Valletta.

The sculptures and mixed media studies, being exhibited in Venice are suggestive of the uninhabited world. They can be described as abstracted forms, which echo the primordial and the genesis of primitive heritage. His sculptures draw a parallel with the study of space and form. In his ceramics, Victor explores the way matter responds to being rubbed, built, beaten, deformed, distorted and entwined.