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Presentation about the difficulties involved when attempting to represent graffiti and street art in an institutional context. The presentation was given at the workshop "From City Streets to Museum Galleries: Discussing Street Art and... more
This paper focuses on the urban graffiti painted with a political message by different movements of the Italian political radicalism in the cities of Rome, Florence, Massa, Carrara, Verona and Udine. For the purpose of this article,... more
"...Then we have Ivan Gololobov’s “War and Piss” in which he shows how Punk is alive and kicking, not necessarily in music form and not necessarily in its motherland, through an analysis of the Russian radical art group “Voina”... more
Dall’osservazione dello spazio urbano della città di Roma, effettuato fra gennaio 2011 e giugno 2012, sono stati censiti e documentati 247 graffiti. Ciò che viene presentato in questo saggio è una prima analisi tematica del materiale... more
The present paper focuses on the concepts of urban and linguistic space. It considers the city as a diamesic melting pot. Graffitism is seen as a communication channel that needs to be examined in order to better understand the urban... more
The study focuses on the republican murals painted on the walls of two cities, Belfast and Derry, in May 2009. The idea for the study was born during a trip to Northern Ireland during which I had the opportunity to observe the murals and... more
La città globale. La condizione urbana come fenomeno pervasivo 1 1-1 4 s e t t e m b r e 2 0 1 9 | B O LO G N A IX CONGRESSO AISU The global city. The urban condition as a pervasive phenomenon S e p t e m b e r 1 1 t h-1 4 t h , 2 0 1 9... more
The paper is about the relationship between Street Art and the wall as Street Art's main support. Analyzing the work of two world famous street artist, Banksy and Blu, the paper highlights how they working on dissolve the wall as border... more
Banksy – the urban calligrapher In the summer of 2009 Bristol saw a remarkable phenomenon that made international news. An estimated 300,000 people queued for hours, often in pouring rain, for admission to the city’s museum & art... more
Taking the exhibition Art in the Streets, which was shown at The Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles from 17 April to 8 August, 2011, as its main point of departure, the present article discusses street... more
Dall’osservazione dello spazio urbano della città di Roma, effettuato fra gennaio 2011 e giugno 2012, sono stati censiti e documentati 247 graffiti. Ciò che viene presentato in questo saggio è una prima analisi tematica del materiale... more
Bologna: between late evening on the 11th March 2016 and the morning of the day after, the famous street artist Blu erased all the works he had painted in the city in the previous 15 years. The murales were covered in grey in protest... more
Souvent reléguées aux marges de l’histoire de l’art, les controverses n’en ont pas moins un effet éminemment transformateur : elles font quelque chose aux œuvres. Consacrée à l’étude de polémiques récentes touchant des œuvres d’art... more