Street art, Turin's former Military Academy becomes a flowery basketball court

Street artist Tellas has created the work Blooming Playground in the spaces of Turin’sARTiglieria Con/temporary Art, which will host the new edition of Paratissima. The artist transformed the pavement of the inner courtyard of the city’sformer Military Academy into a 550-square-meter basketball court, reinterpreting it as a lush flower garden. His colorful playground is unique because it houses two “fixed players” in the center of the court: two maple trees. He has thus created a sort of secret garden, following the example of Turin’s many green courtyards, preserving and enhancing the pre-existing trees by placing them in a new context metaphorically inspired by nature.

The work will be inaugurated on Thursday, September 24, 2020, on the occasion of the reopening ofARTiglieria - Centro d’Arte Contemporanea and the new edition of Paratissima (October 23 to December 8, 2020). The project is curated by Francesca Canfora and aims to enhance a now disused space through a creative coexistence of sports and culture in favor of sociality. Tellas’ intervention brings vegetation back into the complex through art.

In fact, the work combinescontemporary art with the regeneration of urban spaces; it was made possible thanks to the sponsorship of PPG Univer Spa, a company that provided the products based on special acrylic resins and micronized fillers for the realization of the work: products that are resistant and ideal for application on bituminous surfaces such as basketball courts.

Ph.Credit Simone Di Gioia

Street art, Turin's former Military Academy becomes a flowery basketball court

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