Less gray, more color. The degradation of suburban apartment blocks is transformed into art thanks to the SanBa project, aimed at redeveloping one of the most controversial suburban neighborhoods of Rome, San Basilio, thanks to street art
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Less gray, more color. The deterioration of the high-rise buildings of periphery turns into art thanks to SanBa project, aimed at redeveloping one of the most complicated suburbs of Rome, San Basilio, thanks to the street art.
It started on March 29 and has now almost come to an end. Just take a tour of the neighborhood to immediately notice the novelty: new colored facades. The first, made by the well-known artist Lichen (author of Wynwood Walls of Miami) from 2 to 10 May in Via Maiolati, at the corner with via Fabriano. Impossible not to notice the huge rake that scratches the ground of the city taking away with it the greyness of the industry for the citygive way to the earth and plants. In a word, to life.
A way of saying that the earth can and must go back to being the protagonist of the cities, from the center to the periphery. The second, which always bears the signature of Lichen, was built on one of the buildings in Via Fiuminata, at the corner with Via Fabriano, and will be completed tomorrow.
In addition to Liquen, too Agostino Iacurci he was asked to bring color to some buildings in San Basilio. His works will be born between Sunday 18 May and Saturday 24 in Via Osimo, at the corner of Via Fabriano, while the last will be born on one of the buildings in Via Recanati between 25 May and 2 June.
The works, however, are part of a larger project that embraces schools and that involved the inhabitants of the San Basilio district and buildings. The students of the Gandhi elementary school took part with a workshop of expanded muralism, aimed at creating a three-dimensional mural. Those of the average Fellini instead followed a typographic printing workshop, under the guidance of the illustrator Irene Rinaldi, with the aim of creating posters promoting the event, posted by the children in various areas of the neighborhood.
Von Neumann's high school students, on the other hand, ventured into two different workshops. The first, of urban design, held by the Orizzontale team of architects, aimed at the regeneration of some areas of San Basilio, with the construction of urban seating and the creation of new areas of sociality. The second, held by Kinesis, aimed at learning creative writing techniques for the realization of a screenplay to be used in a documentary on the entire event.
“SanBa is what happens when art meets a neighborhood, works with its inhabitants, enters schools and paints its walls. It is public art and desire to collaborate and fight for culture and beauty. Workshops, painted palaces and a documentary film. SanBa is San Basilio. A neighborhood is a whole city, with its own history and with its specific and important stories. To work in a neighborhood you have to respect it and forget the clichés about it. A neighborhood is first of all its inhabitants and some of them are fundamental to what we are doing. We want to thank them all, " is thanksgiving by the artists who participated in the project.
The appointment is now in early June, when, SanBa will end with a big one neighborhood party, which will be attended by artists and inhabitants who have become the first person spokespersons of a "street" art, conceived outside the museums.
Francesca Mancuso
Photo: SanBa2014
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