{"id":34883,"date":"2025-10-28T15:09:51","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T15:09:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vca.gov.mt\/?post_type=etn&#038;p=34883"},"modified":"2025-12-03T15:29:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T15:29:49","slug":"antler-cry","status":"publish","type":"etn","link":"https:\/\/vca.gov.mt\/en\/events\/antler-cry\/","title":{"rendered":"Antler Cry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Join us for Exhibition tours and Meet the Artist sessions taking place on the 6 and 13 December and on the 7th January at 11am.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Anthony Catania\u2019s <em data-start=\"18\" data-end=\"30\">Antler Cry<\/em> is a solo exhibition that confronts the viewer with uncompromising intensity, drawing directly from the ancient myth of Actaeon. Taking place at the National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, the show uses this myth (in which a hunter is punished for seeing what he should not), as a conceptual backbone to examine vision, consequence, and the price of transgression. Through Actaeon\u2019s story, Catania explores the boundaries between perception and transformation, revealing the dangers that arise when one looks too closely.<\/p>\n<p>Catania does not retell the myth. Instead, he uses it as a mirror to explore the cost of seeing what we are not meant to see. His canvases, marked by violent strokes, dark hues, and raw texture, challenge the comfort of the spectator. Each painting is a psychological excavation, exposing the hidden tensions beneath our polished surfaces.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2_ExFr-mqCw?si=DLEKBA2VFRX0p5ks\" width=\"1000\" height=\"600\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Malta, Catania\u2019s birthplace, is both muse and mirror. The island\u2019s sun-soaked beauty, layered history, and tension between the sacred and the profane pulse through his work. His figures \u2014 rough, distorted, and almost clawed from the canvas \u2014 carry the influence of Francis Bacon while retaining a uniquely Maltese gravity.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition begins quietly with <em>Whispers in the Ashen Thicket<\/em>, a deceptively still scene charged with tension, and builds to <em>Antlered Transfiguration Under Death\u2019s Gaze<\/em>, a monumental canvas depicting metamorphosis and chaos. Standing before it, viewers confront both awe and unease \u2014 perhaps even the psychological punishment of Actaeon himself.<\/p>\n<p>Catania\u2019s work reminds us that truth is not always gentle, and beauty can wound as much as it reveals. In an age of fleeting images, <em>Antler Cry<\/em> demands attention, reflection, and feeling.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opening Hours:<\/strong> 9:00 AM \u2013 5:00 PM daily (closed 19, 24, 25, 31 December and 1 January)<\/p>\n\n    <div class=\"xs_social_share_widget xs_share_url after_content \t\tmain_content  wslu-style-1 wslu-share-box-shaped wslu-fill-colored wslu-none wslu-share-horizontal wslu-theme-font-no wslu-main_content\">\n\n\t\t\n        <ul>\n\t\t\t        <\/ul>\n    <\/div> \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Antler Cry, Antony Catania\u2019s solo exhibition at the National Museum of Archaeology, invites viewers to confront myth, transformation, and the raw truths beneath human experience. 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