Flash Art Volumes #3 - Opacity

Flash Art Volumes #3 - Opacity

Flash Art has a lot to say about form. So much so that our regular discourse on contemporary art has overflowed, expanded, and oozed to the towering heights and endless planes of architecture. Flash Art Volumes is the home for these discussions on urban-planning conundrums, building-material ethics, mysterious edifices that dot the world, and what built structures could mean for aesthetics at large.

For its third edition, Flash Art Volumes 003 “Opacity,” to be released on the occasion of Milan Design Week 2026, the subject at hand is transparency and the necessity, or superfluity, of this quality. The issue’s covers feature Roni Horn, shot by Jeff Henrikson in the artist’s New York studio; Rose Wylie, photographed by Zora Sicher, following her show at the Royal Academy, London; and a photo essay by Jack Bool accompanied by guest editor Luis Ortega Govela’s essay “Fuck Transparency.” 

Inside, Wolfgang Tillmans pontificates on glass, transparency, and media transmission through his words and photography. Writer Sarah Johanna Theurer discusses the work of Sung Tieu in the lead-up to her work in the German Pavilion at this year’s Venice Biennale. Patrick McGraw of Heavy Traffic and Liam Denhamer of Juvenilia create a speculative work where fiction meets abandoned structure.