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against poverty, criticism of consumerism, pollution and the
memory of places and people. Everything in street art
involves the city: the materials used for the works are those
that populate the urban reality, such as metals, cement,
painting, but also waste; walls, streets, squares and people
are the canvases and frames that host them.
Like a kaleidoscope on the world, over time the city has
been coloured and enriched by the contributions of visionary
authors, including Arnaldo Pomodoro, the Belgian artist Roa
- whose giant weasel scans the Lungo Dora Savona - Peeta
with his Big trash animal in the form of a bear in San
Salvario, the Igloo Fountain of stone and neon lights by
Mario Merz in corso Mediterraneo.
This booklet aims to illustrate them, without forgetting the
itineraries to get to know up close Barriera di Milano, Pozzo
Strada, Parella, Santa Rita and Mirafiori, areas that have
become real canvases of dreamlike images and artistic
testimonies of their history.
Urban art could not be there without a surrounding
environment capable of acting as a theatre for what the
artist wants to express and, at the same time, it is the city
that is rewritten by a work that changes the relationship
with space and with the people who travel through it.
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