We’re proud to present the video of the collective exhibition FROM STREET TO ART curated by Simone Pallotta, funder of the Cultural Association WALLS and hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute of New York in June 2014.
The project “TRAME – Trasmissioni di Memoria” promotes the re-appropriation of the territory through memory, art and storytelling and stimulates exchanges processe between different age brackets becoming part of the active aging field.
WALLS, along with CEMEA del Mezzogiorno Onlus, choose the district of San Basilio, a suburb in the northeast of Rome, to continue with the work of improvement and promotion of the territory started from SANBA project, now in its second edition. To find out the memory of the neighborhood and tell it through an art which is public and shared, the project was divided into two phases: a time dedicated to listening to the stories of the elders involved, supported by a team of clinical and social psychologists NOEO, and a moment of translation of the needs and concerns raised through art, which made them understandable and shared by the entire audience. A moment of sharing a complex territory and its memory, a stimulus for thought on how to involve and integrate the suburbs, and not only, of all cities.
All phases of the project TRAME were collected in a documentary which is added to visual testimonies of the good practices that promote active aging. Artists Rub Kandy, Giulio Bonasera, Valerio Muscella and Riccardo Rabacchi – respectively through performance and relational art, illustration, photography and video – from the memory of the elder have create artworks that will be the starting point to stimulate in practice the process of active aging and of autonomous productivity; the more mature brackets of community led the rest of the community to understanding the work itself through the territory, also aided by modern and digital languages which promote interaction and understanding for young people. Trame has stimulated debate about the past and how to imagine the future of the district, on how to participate actively in the redevelopment.
Dates: February/June 2015
Where: San Basilio district, Rome (IT)
Artists: Rub Kandy, Giulio Bonasera, Valerio Muscella, Riccardo Rabacchi
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Regione Lazio, Roma Capitale, Municipio IV di Roma, Assessorato Sviluppo delle Periferie Infrastrutture e Manutenzione Urbana, Zètema Progetto Cultura
Collaboration: Associazione Culturale UNRRA CASAS, Centro Anziani di San Basilio di via Pergola, Bocciofilo via Valli di Roma, Istituto Comprensivo via Belforte del Chienti, Istituto Comprensivo via N.M. Nicolai, Istruzione Secondaria Superiore “Von Neumann”
Photo Credit: Riccardo Rabacchi
Dates: April 2015
Where: Bologna, Torino, Imperia, Poggio Mirteto, Rimini, Roma, Catania, Grosseto, Sapri,
Artists: Alessandro DADO Ferri, Davide Andreazza, Giulio Bonasera, Guerrilla Spam, Mr.Fijodor, Mr.Thoms, Marco GUE, Marco Milaneschi, Nemos
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Presidenza del Consiglio dei Ministri, MIUR
SANBA, now in its second edition, continues his attempt to experience the interconnection between contemporary art and social complexity in the suburbs. For the excellent results of the previous edition and for the desire to strengthen the relations and dynamics initiated, WALLS again elects San Basilio, a complex neighborhood located northeast of Rome, for the 2015 edition of the project. The intervention methodology established by WALLS is expressed through two distinct but interrelated phases: workshops in schools about art literacy and to understand of the role of public art in urban requalification and public art interventions on the facades of the neighborhood, which are a reminder of the lived experience and the changes promoted.
SANBA 2015 was attended by Hitnes, an italian artist selected for its ability to read the context in which he operates, which has been assigned the task of creating on the 6 sides of an abandoned square an impressive work of public art, which now is part of the new aesthetic of the neighborhood.
The goal of SANBA is to continue to operate in the suburbs, offering itself as a model of intervention in the territories through public art, is an attempt to transform complex neighborhoods in new poles of cultural spread.
Dates: January/February 2015
Where: San Basilio district, Rome (IT)
Artists: Hitnes
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla cultura e al turismo – Dipartimento Cultura – Servizio Spettacoli ed Eventi
Collaboration: Zetèma, Ater, Municipio Roma IV, Colorificio Toscano
Photo Credit: Valerio Muscella
“From Street to Art” it is the first overview of the Italian Street Art told through the work of 10 of the best contemporary artists curated by Simone Pallotta, founder of WALLS, and hosted at the Italian Cultural Institute in New York from June 20 to 20 August 2014.
The exhibition presents for the first time the names that led the street scene in Italy during the last ten years, showing the work and the creative career, authorial and personal: Agostino Iacurci, Aris, BR1, Cyop & Kaf, Dem, Eron, Hitnes, Sten & Lex, Ufo5, 2501.
The purpose is to show the development of a new generation of Italian artists who, while sharing the title of Street Artist thanks to a strong urban presence and to the spatial approach to their work, have dissimilar ways of painting and substantial differences in the contents that express, with balance and maturity, even in galleries. From Street to Art certify the strength of this new generation of contemporary artists who have to be defined as such, regardless of the medium in which they move.
In parallel with the exhibition inside the Italian Cultural Institute of New York we realized two murals interventions with Hitnes, one inside the Institute and one in collaboration with the Exitroom Gallery in Brooklyn, in order to certify the transversality of the exhibiting artists.
Date: June 2014
Where: Italian Cultural Institute of New York (USA)
Artists: Agostino Iacurci, Aris, BR1, Cyop&Kaf, Dem, Eron, Hitnes, Sten&Lex, Ufo5, 2501
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Istituto Italiano di Cultura, laFondazioneNY, Tramp, Exitroom
Media partner: BSA – Brooklyn Street Art
Photo: WALLS
SanBa is a project of contemporary public art and a documentary film specially designed for San Basilio, a working class district located in the north-east outskirts of Rome. Sanba describes a methodology through which exploring the interconnection between contemporary art and a complex social issues, which is therefore a repeatable, transformable and adaptable project, able to fit in every urban context.
The attempt to interact with a suburban territory and its inhabitants by artistic means is expressed through a twofold action: workshops of contemporary and applied arts with primary, secondary and high school students and interventions on the facades of the district. The workshops – silk-screen painting, expanded muralism and urban design – aim at both producing art objects to be inserted in decaying spaces of the neighbourhood and to render the students active actors in the communication and promotion of the project and ultimately in spreading a renewed conception of public space.
The murals on the blind facades are painted by internationally known artists, such as Liqen and Agostino Iacurci. These works can be said to represent a first distinctive, tangible sign of the transformation and the engagement of a whole neighborhood in a collective project of urban transformation through art.
SanBa is understood as an ongoing project; it will therefore continue to operate in an attempt to transform San Basilio into a new urban centrality and to create a brand new pole of contemporary culture and art production and promotion. WALLS works move from the statement that an urban requalification through participatory arts and culture can trigger virtuous processes of re -appropriation of the public spaces and of the local identities.
Dates: March/June 2014
Where: San Basilio, Rome (IT)
Artists: Liqen, Agostino Iacurci
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Fondazione Roma, Roma Capitale -Assesorato allo Sviluppo delle periferie, Infrastrutture e Manutenzione urbana- e -Assessorato alla Cultura, Creatività e Promozione Artistica-
In collaboration with:: Zètema, Ater, Centro Culturale Aldo Fabrizi and Biblioteche di Roma
Media Partner: Leggo, Zero, Gorgo, Ziguline, LeCool
Photo Credit: Valerio Muscella, Cristina Vatielli
Revalue the city, giving new emphasis to spaces that, being part of an acquired reference point, are usually overlooked: the magnificence of street art as a catalyst to reveal the splendor of the past. Permanent works, those on the walls, creative and re-qualifying actions upon existing architecture, delivered to the city to increase its charm and its rich artistic history painting it of contemporary, to encourage tourism in the name of creativity. Temporary works on media used for billboards has been pills of culture to put emphasis on addiction to visual commercial stimulus transforming them instead in creative inputs. These are the goals of the festival Memorie Urbane to which Walls has provide curatorial consultation for the editions of 2012 and 2013. For 2012 the selected artists were: Escif, Augustine Iacurci, Sten & Lex, Teresa Orazio: four artists, four walls, four billboards. While for the 2013 edition the artists who have enriched the artistic heritage of the city are: Borondo, Alice Pasquini, Faith 47, Dal East, Moneyless, Martina Merlini, Sbagliato, Domenico Romeo.
Dates: May-June 2012
April-June 2013
Where: Gaeta (IT)
Gaeta, Terracina (IT)
Artists: Escif, Agostino Iacurci, Sten & Lex, Teresa Orazio, Sbagliato
Alice Pasquini, Borondo, Daleast, Faith47, Hyuro, Lucamaleonte, Malabrocca, Martina Merlini, Moneyless, Domenico Romeo, Sam3, Sbagliato
Produced by: Davide Rossillo
Curated by: Salvatore Solko, WALLS
Salvatore Solko, WALLS
Partner: WALLS, Turismo Creativo, Bed & Breakfast “Un letto a Gaeta”
WALLS, Bucolica, Bed & Breakfast “Un letto a Gaeta”
Media partner: Ziguline, Lumen, I love Street Art, Collater.al, Frizzi Frizzi, Busta
Ziguline
Photo Credit: Flavia Fiengo, Achille Filipponi
Flavia Fiengo, Arianna Barone
2012, for the third edition of the first festival of street art in Rome, Simone Pallotta, founder and curator of WALLS, was called by NUfactory to curate its art direction. Outdoor is up from 2010 to the attention of media for its ability to develop an aesthetic change of the Ostiense area, a territory that is rapidly developing as a tourist attraction and entertainment, the unique pole of industrial archeology of the city. The selected artists intertwine recognisability and ability to make their works dialogue with the context. Momo, Sam and Borondo , the first American and Spanish the seconds, developed their artworks along Via Ostiense. Momo intervened on the decaying facade of the building Italgas producing a light and abstract opera, that enhances the architecture while weaves a dialogue of curved lines and bold colors. Sam3 with a very symbolic work and as usual composed by flat colors is positioned in front of the basilica of San Paolo. Borondo, engaged in the total decoration of the building that houses the Cultural Homosexual Association Mario Mieli, he interwaved a dialogue with washed-out colors from the walls, building a work from the strong philosophical approach tied to identity.
Dates: July/September 2012
Where: Rome (IT)
Artists: Momo, Sam3, Borondo
Produced by: Nu Factory
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Oikos, Tramp, Dissent
In collaboration with: Provincia di Roma, Roma Capitale – Municipio Roma XI, Arvalia – Municipio Roma XV, 999 Contemporary, Ambasciata del Brasile
Technical Partner: Whole Train Press, Montana
Media Partner: Edizioni Zero, Busta, Sator Production, Cityvision
Photo Credit: Daniela Pellegrini
The third phase of Rebibbia on the wall began in the second half of October 2011. The location chosen is the football field, an important place of recreation and sports for the inmates of high security section. Started in September, the work was completed on December 20th. The project of the football field has been created at this time, through a teamwork between inmates and artists. We have again entrusted the ideative direction to Agostino Iacurci; decision arose spontaneously observing the relationship that had been established in the previous embodiment between the artist and detainees. The 15 detainees during this phase expressed a willingness to think about a project that would consider the location: so the work has been focused on football. The idea of using football as subject made necessary a trasversal design elaboration. The subject of the composition is a large banner, like those used in stadiums, which simultaneously receives all the colors of all the football teams. Doing so has developed a decoration that takes into account the different geographical origins of the prisoners of the High Security section: to each color of the football teams corresponds a percentage of the prison population. The colors of the teams were represented in aan original way: each detainee invented a graphic pattern, proposing a texture to realize in first person.
Date: December 2011
Where: Prison of Rebibbia New Complex, Rome.
Artists: Agostino Iacurci
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Guarantor of the Rights of Prisoners of Lazio Region, Province of Rome, UISP, Lada Film,
Photo Credit: Achille Filipponi
Video Credit: Massimiliano Vana (Lada Movies)
The project Rebibbia on the wall 2.0 started when it was finished the first artwork in the stroll of the section of High Security in 2010, which is the area destined to the four hours of air granted to the prisoners in the Roman prison.
The second phase of the project Rebibbia on the wall started in April 2011, and concluded at the end of May. The area involved has been the volleyball field. Supported by the artist Agostino Iacurci, the 15 detainees selected have crated and discussed the subject of the sketch to realize: a teamwork that led to the final design. The work created by Iacurci in collaboration with the detainees focused on the creation of a surreal landscape, designed as a container of characters, landscapes and images of all kinds. A sort of wunderkammern, a chamber of wonders in which is contained the whole of humanity. Every prisoner has been involved in a part of the composition, modality which has produced a particular affection and as result a passionate discussion within the section. Instead with each passing day of work increased the intensity and the overlap of the subjects represented has changed the point of view of those who are forced to relate every day with the composition. The presence of so many different people has created a story to imagine, where each figure represents the complexity and diversity of the world.
Date: April/June 2011
Where: Prison of Rebibbia New Complex, Rome.
Artists: Agostino Iacurci
Curated by: WALLS
Partner: Guarantor of the Rights of Prisoners of Lazio Region, Province of Rome, UISP, Lada Film,
Photo Credit: Achille Filipponi
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Simone Pallotta: curating and art direction
Francesca Lacroce: production and research
Andrea Messori: institutional relations and development
Paolo Colasanti: street network
Chiara Mariani: Communication manager