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Largo Orbassano, heart of the Santa Rita area. The
artwork in the centre of the square dates back to 2005,
when it was created by Danish artist Per Kirkeby (1938-
2018), and is entitled Opera per Torino. It’s a double brick
portal, whose structure conceals a secret: from the outside
the lines appear right-angled, like the streets of Turin, but
once you are inside, you discover that the layout is actually
a trapezoid one, with a distorted perspective effect that
deceives your eye by making the structure look longer than
the real one. Kirkeby himself said in an interview: «I wanted
to create a piece of work that would adapt to the
atmosphere of the city, to that strange and almost surreal
feeling that you can experience in Turin».
“Un soffio...” by Boc crew (photo by F. Vaglio Laurin)
Walking on the left side of corso IV Novembre, on the
edge of the Parco Cavalieri di Vittorio Veneto, we find the
Monumento ai caduti di Nassiriya, which was created in
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