Giuseppe Marasco is Mexican Italian born in London. Painter and critic. He is Interested in immateriality, memory and traces of the ghostly in relation to migration and travel between worlds. Interested in notions of bilingualism and translation. He is interested in the nature of aura and iconicity in the age of social media and the creation of images and myths for our modern times. ‘Thinking through painting’. The generative nature painting on language, and the translation between painting and the written word. He writes on the emerging London art scene. He is currently writing on the institutional politics of teaching painting now.