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Turin: long time, no see – part 2

Urban Art Museum, street art, Turin Last time I mentioned that my old neighborhood, San Salvario, is almost unrecognizable from the time I was living there; even if I didn’t experience San Salvario’s Blade Runner Times (those of “I’ve seen things, in San Salvario, you people wouldn’t believe”), I’ve been so lucky to live in San Salvario before the whole neighborhood turned into an open air night club, loosing its genuine charm.

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Top 7 street art galleries in Rome

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Street art, by definition, is “in the streets”; urban spaces are its framework and murals are for everybody passing by, a gift to the community. But what happens when the street art leaves the street to enter an art gallery? Is it still street art or does it turn into something else? And if it changes, what does it become?

Every Roman art gallery specializing in street art has faced this dilemma, coming up with its own solution of this tricky matter: from making the gallery’s white walls available to the artists for site-specific works to challenging them to paint on canvas, or even by sponsoring huge murals in the gallery’s neighborhood, Rome’s street art galleries have committed themselves to spreading the message that Art is Art, whatever the framework.

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Alterazioni Festival: interview with the staff

Last year I published a post about my graffiti hunt in Arcidosso, a medieval village near Grosseto (Tuscany). As I got a great feedback on that post, I thought to share more information about this colourful summer festival, asking to the guys behind Alterazioni Festival a few questions about the project, especially regarding the street art theme.

Enjoy the interview!

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As seen on the streets of Athens: a street art guide

Athens, seen from above, is a white ocean of roofs meeting the Mediterranean sea somewhere at the horizon.

Athens, street view, is a very colourful town: posters, installations, kiosks and a lot of street art (a lot, really a lot!), including several large outdoor murals.

Some of them were made possible though various creative projects set up by the Athens Municipality (especially before the Olympic Games of 2004), which involved some well-known local street artists, many of whom are from the Athens School of Fine Arts (which runs a programme of street art studies, by the way).

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An evening with STMTS

Stamatis loves Toulouse-Lautrec, Rembrandt and Dalì, but also fellow street artists such as Blu, Roa and the Greek artist Alexandros Vasmoulakis.

Walking around downtown Athens you will surely notice his paste-up works: large and colorful sketches of children’s expressive faces.

Thanks to a common friend, I had the chance to meet Stamatis while I was in Athens and we had an interesting talk about his art and the overall Athens’ street art scene.

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One day in Salerno: between street art and lighting art

I am not a religious person, but I’ve always liked Christmas because it meant two weeks away from school, or –now- from my desk job (well… it’s actually less than two weeks, but still… it’s holiday time!).

While I am counting down the days to my week in Athens, I decided that I deserved a vacation anticipation and so I organised a day-trip to Salerno with my parents. Thanks to the high-speed train, it took us only two hours to get to Salerno, which made me add it to my list of perfect day-trips from Rome.