A solo art exhibition by Marco Arcidiacono is to be held on Wednesday 13 May at 6pm at the Istituto Culturale Italiano in St Georges Square, Valletta. The Prime Minister, Dr Lawrence Gonzi and the Italian Ambassador Dr Paolo Trabalza will be present for the inauguration while Art critic consultant Dr Louis Lagana will present a speech entitled from Malta to L’Abruzzo in solidarity with the earthquake victims.

Marco Arcidiacono was born in Zebbug in 1940 and received his artistic education at Birkfield School of Art under the influence of Professor Gabriel Dechamps, who painted mainly Mediterranean coastal scenes. He has taken part in many collective exhibitions abroad in the UK, Italy, Germany, Bulgaria, Romania and Malta as well as solo exhibits in the Brighton Lanes, the Shambles York, Cork Street Gallery, Russian Gallery, Stuttgart Gallery and the Sofia Gallery in Bulgaria.

In nearly 50 years of activity in the field of water-colour painting Marco has lovingly recorded the essentials in Mediterranean colour also influenced by his father a great water colourist, Giuseppe Arcidiacono, known at the Royal Academy. For an artist who inclines to the figurative approach his vigorous works depict youth with all its life and energy and literally breath the invigorating pure air of the Mediterranean with its feelings of sun and colour embedded in the reflected glaze of yellow, golden ochre, greens, reds and ultramarines.

The artist may also be found at 67, Artisans Studio, Swieqi, Tel. 2138 1051, 7980 7950.