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human being engaged in daily activities. Opposite the
Cascina is Spazio 211, whose courtyard walls are regularly
repainted, thus offering “space” to many writers.
Crossing via Rondissone we reach corso Vercelli 141,
where artists such as Knz clan, Verbo, Hemo, Joys, Made and
Romagnainfiore have created various mural paintings. While
still in corso Vercelli, on two blind façades located at the
corner with via Desana, the German artist Marcus Kreiss
painted shapes of furniture and interiors, by picturing the
various apartments beyond the wall. The work, named
Inside-Out, aims to underline how we, as viewers, are
observing, a private interior that becomes public, allowing
us to stand on the threshold even without being seen.
Turning into via Lauro Rossi, we reach via Renato
Martorelli: at number 48 we can see one of the thirteen
blind façades painted by the famous street artist Francesco
Giorgino, aka Millo. The walls create a unusual habitat
populated by giants: in all thirteen images, in fact, the
subject depicted is perpetually out of scale when compared
to the surrounding environment.
Habitat – this is the title of the project with which Millo in
2014 won the international call for public art B.ART – Arte in
Barriera – invites us to reflect on the relationship between
man and the urban fabric, transformed and now,
paradoxically, no longer tailored to us. To find our way
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