Sculptures can be created from all sorts of things: marble, clay, wood, and even bone. Born in East London, artist John Paul Azzopardi studied philosophy in Malta. Nowadays, he is known for his unusual sculptures.
He puts together natural products, fabrics and other things to create works that bring to mind destroyed civilizations. Old items, forgotten artifacts, objects from a lost culture. If you don’t know better, you might think them to be extremely old. Mummy-like beings and interred high priests stare at us through empty eye sockets. I don’t think I would be able to share a room with one of his works for a single night.
But it’s his most recent works that thoroughly unnerve me: made of numerous bones, they’re not really works of art one would hang on their wall happily. However, these filigree sculptures are indeed beautiful in their own peculiar way. It’s like skin was ripped off the body of a being, revealing a sophisticated and highly aesthetic composition of bones. I think the violin made of bones is probably the most beautiful piece, yet simultaneously the scariest. Who would play such a thing? Well, it’s certainly an instrument fit for the Grim Reaper…
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