23/09/2010

WALLS OF FAME: THE CITY THAT I WOULD LIKE

Two women, symbolizing the union of multiple cultures, unite their dresses and under the light of a new dawn, flower babies blossom in the fields. This is the "city that I would like" dreamed and desired by the Milanese artist Nais and painted on a 15 meter long wall in viale Jenner 44. It is the first work realized in the name of the project "Walls of Fame", born from the collaboration between the association M.A.T Milano Altri Talenti and the Mayor of Milan. This initiative is strongly supported by the Mayor Letizia Maratti together with the councillors Massimiliano Finazzer Flory and Maurizio Cadeo.
10 other artists have been asked to create a "public" work of art on other 10 “legal” walls chosen by the Milan Municipality during the next few months. An open air artistic circuit that answers to the theme “the city that I would like” in reference to the specific site of the wall, working to contribute towards the city and its neighbourhood's identity.

In the following months we will have, always under the artists' direction of Gisella Borioli who ha also coordinated the project, the artist Neve and his wall in viale Struzo and Pao with a lucid circuit about his previous work in the Martesana park and Kayone displayed on the wall of via Olona next to the Science Museum. Within the month artists Ozmo, El Gato Chimney and Santy will start working on other walls yet to be defined. But the list of artists that wish to collaborate in the project “Walls of Fame” is getting longer day by day. Who knows if in opposition to all the scarred and vandalized walls the city of Milan could propose one hundred walls made precious by its street artists.
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