The suburbs become a work of art in Palermo with two Argentine artists

by time news

Time.news – Beauty as a process of change and the periphery becomes a masterpiece. Soon a new mural work signed by the Argentine artists Medianeras in the Sperone district of Palermo. Public art becomes synonymous with community care and thanks to crowdfunding it is possible to support the Sperone167 initiative. From 10 to 22 October at the Sperone di Palermo the Argentine artists Medianeras will intervene and the work will be inaugurated on Saturday 22 October through the Visual Art Experience curated by Odd Agency and the performance of some artists of the music scene.

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During the week, the Italian Association of Green Professionals will reclaim the flowerbed in front of the wall object of the intervention and will take care of the planting of one or more trees. There will also be two workshops, free and aimed at some students and families of the Sperone Pertini Institute – curated respectively by Massimo Sirelli and Demetrio Di Grado, and focused on founding values ​​of Sperone167, such as the care of relationships and places also through education in reuse.

Other unmissable moments will be tours between the neighborhood, the Drum Circle by the Bottega delle Percussioni and the presentation of the book “Street Art In Italia” whose authors Travel On Art are part of the creative alliance.

“A neighborhood that feels like a community, a neighborhood that feels like a city. This is our dream. To take care of places to continue to heal our heart. Painting is a pretext, beauty our goal “, says the painter Igor Scalisi Palminteriwhile Josh Rizzuto of Circ’Opificio adds: “We believe that a stimulating environment contributes to the care of a community. Sperone 167 can be an antidote to any denial and unexpressed potential”.

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Concluded the first phase of Sperone167 – which gave rise, between March and April, to the cultural exchange between the 167 districts of Lecce and Sperone di Palermo – the creative alliance questioned how to give continuity to the experience.

In fact, the companies involved wish to continue to produce art, enhancing the beauty of the places, “nourishing processes of self-determination”, giving the neighborhoods an international flair.: an alternative way of taking care of a peripheral territory which, as often happens in various parts of the world, is relegated to the margin, as well as its inhabitants, their needs and their desires.

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The red thread that binds Sperone167’s creative alliance is explained, “is the desire to make manifest all that is denied today (denied childhood, denied rights, denied sea, denied spaces), and move from the acknowledgment of denial to the commitment to change. A vision according to which through good practices of participation “from below” it is possible to strengthen the sense of community and at the same time take care of it “.

Since the birth of this experience the instrument used to finance the activities was crowdfunding, as a natural form of economic support for a movement from below. It is possible to concretely support the October initiative by accessing the platform https://www.planbee.bz/it/progetti/dettaglio/173

Currently in the district there are already five mural interventions made at various times and produced by different realities, and this facilitates the observation of a potential for the Sperone district as a future experimentation center for street artsable to give back spaces and opportunities for reflection to the community, as well as creatively contribute to the attractiveness of the territory and generate economic development.

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