Rome, Zerocalcare's Mammoth restored. It is now an eco-mural

After almost ten years or so since its creation, Zerocalcare’s Mammoth, the historic mural at the Rebibbia station of Rome’s Metro B completed in 2014 as part of the collaboration between ATAC and AIE Associazione Italiana Editori, on the occasion of the thirteenth edition of Più Libri Più liberi, the National Fair of Small and Medium Publishers, and with the curatorship of 999 Contemporary, now becomes green. In fact, it has become an eco-mural thanks to restoration using photocatalytic and air-purifying eco-paints. Eco-sustainable paints that transform pollutants (such as nitrogen and sulfur oxides, benzene, formaldehyde, and carbon monoxide) into salt molecules: with its 60 square meters, made in restoration with eco-painting, as of today the Mammoth has an ecological impact equal to 2.4 trees planted, with 12.8 Euro 6 gasoline cars whose pollution is eliminated every day and 34.1 Kg less CO2 in the air. The initiative was made possible thanks to the collaboration between ATAC and several environmental organizations led by Yourban 2030, the association aimed at the dissemination of Agenda 2030.

Curating the restoration of the mural was Friulian artist Maria Bressan in art Rosmunda, an Italian muralist and illustrator who lives and works in Carrara and who cares deeply about social and environmental issues. Her research is focused on the relationship between man and nature. Since 2018, she has created numerous murals between Italy and Spain and is convinced that street art is an effective tool to create belonging by lifting places and people from degradation.

“After launching the idea of eco-murals from the walls of Rome, today from the Mammoth of Rebibbia we want to launch a new idea of restoration intervention aimed at murals, public and urban works of art to which the capital and other Italian cities have turned in recent decades,” explains Veronica De Angelis, founder and president of Yourban 2030.

Rome, Zerocalcare's Mammoth restored. It is now an eco-mural

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