Rest assured the purists have no idea what to make of Piano’s work. Or any other contemporary piece ie.

I still can’t stomach how these self proclaimed purveyors of taste manage to ignore the familiarity of idiom and how it evolves the same as its own. Their purism is of an abstract failure, more so when monomateric texture is employed.

To hell with the contempt for style as a series of signs mashed onto vast expanses of glass. Which would be their ‘acceptable’ compromise.

As if they’re interested in style as work, all they expect is nostalgia. Even if a nation made its way out of those ruins.
That is why they’re pathetic, oppressive also.

Piano referred to light playful intelligence, the only element which can do away with sticky inertia. The only answer they could give was resorting to calling him a fraud. The shame.

You are becoming more isolated with every day that passes.

Feed them bullshit and they will vote for you!

very close indeed! :(

Another Pope covered up Adam and Eve at the Sistine Chapel.

I’m still in my mid 30s and the only recollection I have of the area is, besides a monument in ruins, kitsch shops selling mediocre quality items and a foul smelling area attracting all sorts of what nots. And a lot of debates and never-ending discussions.

Now, Valletta will have a new face.

In future, many will realise that it’s this generation of creativity, generation of ideas, of sprucing the area with a new cleanliness, smartness and modernity what is excellent about the project.

The fact that it’s ‘signed’ by Piano helps too.

Finally this newly pampered city of ours will be creating inspirations for a stagnated artistic/cultural heart of us Maltese, helping in the marketing of our island, generating more money.

“Fistla” mhux “xidja”