Flash Art Volumes 003 – 2026

Flash Art expands its critical discourse and contemporary studies of form into architectural realms with Flash Art Volumes. Each annual issue explores urban-planning conundrums, building-material ethics, mysterious edifices, and what built structures could mean for aesthetics at large.

In this issue: Opacity 

Released alongside Milan Design week 2026, issue #003 considers transparency, and the necessity, or superfluity, of this quality. Inside this issue Wolfgang Tillmans pontificates on glass, writer Sarah Johanna Theurer discusses the work of Sung Tieu in the lead-up to her show at this year’s Venice Biennale, and Patrick McGraw of Heavy Traffic with Liam Denhamer of Juvenilia create a speculative work where fiction meets abandoned structure.

“We are living in an era of excessive visibility. Glass skins, curtain-wall systems, infinite screens — an architectural theology of transparency that promises openness while enforcing scrutiny. The tectonics of transparent surfaces have always been a moral technology. Every material carries its own ideology; glass, in its apparent innocence, has been the medium through which modernity perfected exposure. Everything must be visible, verifiable, legible. Transparency masquerades as honesty, democracy, openness — yet it functions as extraction. To be transparent today is to be made available for mining, sorted into data, folded into policing mechanisms.”

- Guest Editor Luis Ortega Govela on the concept of this special issue.  

Milan, Italy, 23x30cm, 300 pages, Annual, Spring 2026