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Continuing along via Artom, on the left there is the
sculpture Iguana: a metallic animal immersed in the green
that the sculptor, designer and teacher Luigi Nervo created
in 1982 using common painted metal tubes, then bent as to
create a giant reptile or, in the words of Nervo, a “machine-
game” designed to bring man closer to the environment in
which it is placed. The artist decided to share the creation of
the work with a group of Fiat workers in redundancy fund,
thus underlining his vocation towards social work.
One of the murals of the Mira-Up project (photo by F. Vaglio Laurin)
At the end of via Artom, at one of the entrances to the
Colonnetti Park, there is Monumento alla Pace by Alessandro
Roncaglio. Behind this simple work, there is a terrible story.
It was just a few months before the Liberation when the very
young Alessandro was arrested and handed over to the
Germans with his father: they were both deported first to
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