Caritas Malta is holding an Art Exhibition at the Auberge de Castille, with works by Maltese artist John Borg Manduca (pictured), as part of its programme of fund-raising activities for this year. The Exhibition will be inaugurated by the Prime Minister Dr Lawrence Gonzi on Wednesday 28 October 2009.

John Borg Manduca's art reflects his commitment to Malta and the Mediterranean through his intense depiction of the intricate, auburn tones of the Maltese landscape, and the powerful, relentlessness of heaving waves. Borg Manduca has over the years developed his own distinctive, impressionistic technique, with oils in palette-knife as his favoured medium.

Collaboration with the leading British artist and concrete poet gardner Ian Hamilton Finlay in the '70s, gave Borg Manduca his greatest breakthrough in art. In that unique experience he produced ink drawings in palette-knife of tanks, aircraft carriers and submarines, which Finlay translated into poetic images of cards, booklets and prints.

Borg Manduca’s works have been exhibited in numerous one-man, group and collaborative exhibitions since 1972, and are displayed at the National Museum of Fine Arts, Malta; The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh and private collections in Malta, Europe, the USA and Canada.

The Exhibition will be open for public viewing, free of charge, between 29 and 31 October from 4 to 8pm, and on Sunday 1 November from 9am to noon. Access is from the main entrance of the Auberge de Castille.

Caritas Malta expresses its thanks to the Prime Minister for facilitating the hosting of the Exhibition at the Auberge de Castille and the sponsors: Casapinta Exhibitions and Events, Bank of Valletta, Tumas Group, Middle Sea Valletta Life and the Malta Tourism Authority.