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