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Street Art in Rome

AddFuel’s first mural in Rome

Last week someone who had read my enthusiastic post about street art in Lisbon dropped me a line to let me know that one of those street artists featured in my article was painting his first mural in Rome at that very moment.

And that’s how I met Diogo Machado (aka AddFuel) and the two street art lovers behind the Forgotten Project: Hugo Dias and Alessandra Arpino.

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Street art tributes to Pier Paolo Pasolini in Rome

Pier Paolo Pasolini was an Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual, a visionary thinker who became a controversial figure of the last century; he was murdered in 1975.

Lately my social feeds have been virally invaded by the picture of the new poster-art piece by the French artist Ernest Pignon Ernest, which has been pasted onto walls almost simultaneously in several different areas of Rome, from Testaccio to Trastevere and up to the Tiberina Island.

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A round up of Rome’s street art – VOL. 1

While I travel and write about amazing street art from all around Europe, there is a lot going on in my hometown too. Honestly, I’ve never thought I couldn’t keep up with Rome’s street art scene, but that’s what happened during this spring, so I’m writing a blogpost collecting what’s new on the streets of Rome, including some older works that I still hadn’t review on this blog. At the end of the article, you will find a list of useful links to previous blogposts about Rome’s street art scene.

Enjoy the reading and the graffiti hunt!

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Top 7 street art galleries in Rome

Aakash Nihalani Wunderkammern art gallery torpignattara street art Rome

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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The MURo walking tour: and so I’m back graffiti hunting at Quadraro

Lucamaleonte M.U.Ro. Quadraro street art Roma

You already know how much I like M.U.Ro., the Urban Art Museum of Rome.

At the very top of my Top 10 off-the-beaten path spots in Rome, M.U.Ro. gives to all street art lovers the hope that even the ancient and classical Rome could become a street art’s Mecca.

Since my last visit in February 2014 many new murals have been painted and I was looking forward to coming back to check them out!

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Welcome to Trullo, the hood of street poetry and guerrilla painting

pittori anonimi del trullo street art roma

If Pasquino is no longer lampooning from his popular corner near Piazza Navona, the walls of Rome are still speaking in rhymes in Trullo district, a suburb in the western part of Rome, where seven guys are spreading metroromantic poems all around the hood.