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From via Verga we turn right to reach strada Castello di
Mirafiori; we follow it until the crossroads with via
Emanuele Artom and there, in the middle of the
roundabout, there is the sculpture Due noci (2010) by
Marcella Tisi, an artist that always uses nature as the main
subject of her works.
We continue on in via Artom: at number 81, on three
apartment buildings, we can admire three collective murals
built in 2017 for the Mira-Up project. The first mural
encourages the use of the bicycle to save nature from smog
and concrete: a boy, riding his bike on a barbed wire leaves
behind a dry tree and heads to another one still in bloom.
On the second wall there is a big hand that raises its index
finger towards the sky, that is an invitation to look up and
touch the sky with a finger. Finally, the third wall spurs the
viewer to escape from the greyness of the city towards the
Journey, the knowledge… even of new languages, as
evidenced by the nine painted hands, which in sign
language have written the word “Mirafiori”.
At the corner of via Artom and via Candiolo (near the civic
library Cesare Pavese), there is a work that the young
emerging artists Margherita Bobini and Andrea Gritti wanted
to dedicate to the theme of the Resistance: it is a mural
depicting Emanuele Artom, a young Jewish partisan who
died in prison under torture in 1944. A little further there is a
memorial plaque for the young man, located at the corner
between via Artom and via Onorato Vigliani.
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