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)