Over the past six months, Yuxiang Tang has been painting the landscapes of Siġġiewi, the town where he now lives. He comments: "The works depict local churches, stone architecture, and surrounding natural scenery, not as mere topographical records, but as lived spaces shaped by time, memory, and observation." Through these paintings, Tang offers a personal response to his new home - seeing it at once through the eyes of a newcomer and through the quiet familiarity of daily life. His canvases capture those fleeting moments where light, place, and time converge in stillness.
Born in China in 1991, Tang is a professional artist working across oil painting, sculpture, and public art. He has received over a decade of formal training in painting... and later graduated in Art and Design from Hefei University." His career spans exhibitions in China and Australia, large-scale public sculpture projects, and, more recently, a growing presence in Europe. Since relocating to Malta in 2024, he has continued to expand his practice, presenting solo exhibitions and participating in significant cultural events, including a 2025 group exhibition at the Malta Presidential Palace.
Tang's artistic language has evolved in recent years from representational landscape painting toward a broader investigation of time, space, and light. Influenced by astronomy and quantum physics, he seeks to move beyond a single, fixed viewpoint, using layered colours and dynamic lines to evoke the multiple paths through which light travels. For him, painting becomes a way of traversing time - a visual inquiry into perception, existence, and the unseen structures that shape reality.
When Light Remains in Siġġiewi brings these strands together: the intimacy of place, the curiosity of a newcomer, and the artist's ongoing exploration of light as both subject and metaphor. The exhibition invites viewers to linger, to look slowly, and to experience Siġġiewi not only as a physical landscape but as a field of shifting time and perception.
Exhibition Details
- Dates: 6 March - after Easter
- Venue: Marilu's, Ground Floor (next to the parish church)
