They were common houses and schools and have turned into an open-air museum thanks to street art.
They were common public housing and schools and have turned into a open-air museum thanks to street art.
A Tor Marancia in the Ardeatino district of Rome, both the anonymous walls of the historic lot 1 and those of the Caravaggio Art School have given way to spray cans and liters of paint.
Colorful butterflies, flowers and children's faces are the protagonists of the facade of the Roman school, the work was created by the American Gaia is called "Uneven Humanism" and metaphorically represents the migratory flows.
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It took a little over two months for the project to flourish “Big city life Tor Marancia”, conceived by 999Contemporary, financed by the Rome Foundation and the Campidoglio, sponsored by the VIII Municipality and shared with Ater, the territorial company for residential construction of the Capitoline Municipality.
Over 20 murales in street art created by 18 artists from 10 countries who have painted the walls of public housing and the school with color, restoring some dignity to buildings that are at times dilapidated.
The works 14 meters high each were created in the manner of all free, a gift that the street artists have given to the inhabitants of the area who have joined forces in the cultural association “Rude” who will take care of the maintenance of the murals from now on.
An initiative that was born from above with the aim of transforming the Roman village, but which immediately involved the whole local community: from citizens to neighborhood associations up to school students.
A little big revolution in which everyone really participated even in the choice of wall paintings. In short, something is moving in the capital.
In Trullo district, the Trullo Painters Anonymous organization has changed the face of the Roman suburbs with strokes of colors and brushes; in Tor Sapienza trees, butterflies, foxes and toads reproduced on the walls have made the via Morandi complex more liveable.
Less gray, more color then is the slogan of the SanBa project, aimed at redeveloping one of the most complicated suburbs of Rome, San Basilio.
Latest in chronological order is "Art in the station and city in color", a great work of street art that in recent months is making 120 railway stations more liveable with the contribution of famous street artists.
Dominella Trunfio
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