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in 2010 by the artist and graphic artist Vito Navolio. It was
initially made out of ten benches, on which were painted
some tributes dedicated to great painters such as Andy
Warhol and Pablo Picasso.
In addition to the guided tours organized by the MAU
(sometimes by bicycle), it is also interesting to discover the
neighborhood and the museum on your own. In fact, walking
through the area, you have the impression of walking
through the rooms of a museum: on the wall of a building in
via Netro 4, next to the church of Sant'Alfonso de' Liguori,
a child shows us a bright sun inviting us to enter the district.
It is a large mural painted by the artist Gianluca Scarano. We
accept the invitation by taking one street after another, but
remembering to keep our faces always up, because at every
step a painting could surprise us from above.
At the corner of via Locana and via Musinè, for example,
we find the colourful mural entitled Omaggio al Liberty
(2016) by Vito Navolio and Francesca Nigra, in which some
elegant ladies from the beginning of the century look out
from the walled windows of a building. The decorative
sweetness of Art Nouveau vanishes completely in front of
Mosche, a gigantic swarm of flies made in stencil by Sergio
Ragalzi from Turin on a house in via Ceres 11. A completely
different atmosphere welcomes us in via Locana 19, where
Roberta Fanti from Bologna has painted an enveloping red
rose on the window of a house, a flower that blooms every
time you open its windows.
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