Mario Sammut

Mario Sammut, was born in Malta in 1955. From an early age he attended drawing and painting lessons by Antoine Camilleri and Esprit Barthet. Later he attended classes in ceramics under the guidance of ceramist Gabriel Caruana.

The artist is a ceramist and sculptor. He uses various mediums to express his style of art. He started as a ceramist portraying his sculptures in clay but has delved into bronze, aluminium and marble.

His ceramics are hand-built, using slabs to create sculptural forms based on the human figure, depicting a particular style and emphasising a balance of texture, shape and line. His ceramic sculptures range from organic forms to single figures and multiple figures interacting with each other, with emphasis on social interaction and relationships, exploring the human figure through such emotions and situations. He portrays the human figure by itself or in groups with minimal detail yet in monumental form.

His ceramics are fired to stoneware temperatures of 1260 degrees celsius and glazes them in a monochromatic way so as not to interfere with the visual aesthetics of the form. The minimalist approach and lack of details convey a sense of anonymity where the viewers are left to adapt the representation...

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010 Humanity In Forms – Malta Fine Arts Museum, Valletta.
2013 Expressing Humanity – Palazzo de la Salle Valletta.
2013 Visions of Humanity – Banca Giuratale ,Victoria, Gozo.

Public Art

Embracing Dancers – 2.5m bronze sculpture at Xewkija, Gozo (Nov 2012)
Ras il-Huta – A1.5metre bianco carrara marble sculpture at Marsaskala seafront promenade. (Jan 2017)

Collections

Museum of Fine Arts, Valletta
Ministry of Gozo
Ministry of Social Dialogue
Auberge de Castille (Office of the Prime Minister)

Galleries showing works
Marie gallery5
Mithna ta' Ganu – Gabriel Caruana Foundation
Iniala - Valletta




Collectives (from 2005);
2005 - Malta-Cyprus Ceramics Exhibition – Palazzo Vilhena, Mdina
2005 - Cyprus-Malta Ceramics Exhibition – Kypria Gonia, Larnaca, Cyprus
2006 -Unita 2006
2007 - 6th Biennale of Contemporary Christian Art
2007 - Malta-Cyprus Ceramics Exhibition – Auberge d’Italie – Valletta
2007 - Unita 2007
2007 - Diversity in Art – Razzett tal-Markiz Mallia Tabone – Mosta
2008 - Cyprus-Malta Ceramics Exhibition at The Municipal Gallery Larnaca, Cyprus
2008 - Alte Oper, Frankfurt – Four Artist Exhibition
2008 - Unita 2008
2008 - Freeforms – 3 Artist Exhibition – Hastin...