Articles of ‘Stelios Faitakis’

PUSH TO FLUSH / The Rhetorics of Nationalism

PUSH TO FLUSH / The Rhetorics of Nationalism

(On Venice Biennale’s ILLUMInations)
By Paco Barragán
For people in Venice that aren’t necessarily so well informed in art matters, “ILLUMInazioni - ILLUMInations” might make them think of a kind of light show…
Obviously the title is not very bright and shining. To be more precise: this contradictio in terminis in the title is a cheap, lamentable boutade. [...]



How many of you saw the gorilla… or the return of mural painting?

The Strange Alliance between the Oldest and the Newest of all Media
History is always moving in unexpected ways. The paradox of the return of mural painting, the oldest of all media, in the era of the Internet and because of the Internet might well oblige us to change all of our parameters in reading art [...]