Street art under the banner of sustainability: concluded the 3rd edition of Street Art for Rights

The third edition of Street Art for Rights in Rome, the festival that narrates and spreads the culture of sustainability through street art, through the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of theUN Agenda, concludes.

Now the initiative counts more than thirty works made in Rome in the suburbs of Corviale and Settecamini and in Lazio between Cassino, Fiumicino and Latina. An open-air museum that gives new life to the space of the suburbs in a triumph of colors. Thanks to Street Art for Rights, urban space becomes a place where people can express themselves freely.

The project was created with the intention of bringing art to neighborhoods with difficult contexts in the suburbs of Rome, adopting the 17 Goals of the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and filtering them through street art. The goal is to give artistic concreteness to the plan of action for people, the Planet and prosperity promoted by the UN, bringing the community closer to the various issues and soliciting reflection on the pressing problems of the present.

In this third edition, the artists were Natalia Rak (Poland), Etnik (Sweden-Italy), Fabio Petani (Italy), Attorep (Italy), Barbara Oizmud (Italy), Davide Toffolo and Marqus (Italy), NSN997 (Spain), and Manuela Merlo in art HUMAN (Italy), who created eight walls in the Settecamini, Ponte Mammolo and San Paolo neighborhoods, dedicated to Global Goals 10 to 17 of Agenda 2030: GOAL 10 Reduce Inequality; GOAL 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities; GOAL 12 Sustainable Consumption; GOAL 13 Fight Climate Change; GOAL 14 Life Under Water; GOAL 15 Life on Earth; GOAL 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions; GOAL 17 Partnership for the Goals. All artists made, each from their own point of view, a powerful image on the key-concept of sustainable development. In addition, all the walls were made with AirLite’s patented special paints, products that are able to transform pollutants into salt molecules and thus initiate the process of photosynthesis.

Street Art For Rights is conceived and directed by Giuseppe Casa, curated by Oriana Rizzuto, and organized by the cultural association Taste & Travel in collaboration with MArteSocial and MArteGallery.

The artists and their works

ATTOREP - Via Settecamini 108, Rome
Goal 10 - Reduce Inequalities
Attorep, with its romantic portraits that lead to reflection on increasingly fragile human relationships, has interpreted Global Goal number 10, or Reduce Inequalities. The work depicts two faces, placed facing each other. The two figures look into each other’s eyes, with a look of affection, love and inclusion.

Davide Toffolo and Marqus - Via Settecamini 102, Rome
Objective 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
Scratchy gothic-punk style illustrator Davide Toffolo together with Marqus translated the theme of urban pollution through satire, depicting an enormous gorilla as king of a city with indefinite borders and extension. A direct critique of contemporary consumerism, maximum urbanization and disrespect for the environment.

Etnik- Via Settecamini 104, Rome
Goal 12 - Sustainable Consumption
Etnik, an urban artist who has been active for more than 30 years on the urban art scene, was inspired by goal number 12 for his mural with The House in the House, the title of his work that in addition to being a vision on housing architecture dedicated to ecological and recycling issues is at the same time a cue to work on ourselves, on our daily habits. With his geometric illustrations made of shapes, volumes and colors that sometimes lead to abstract figures, Etnik wants to represent theprecarious balance of human beings and the incessant speed of the contemporary world. Etnik carries out a personal artistic research capable of conveying a strong message: the artist’s point of view on the city and the parts of which it is composed, and with it develop his peculiar poetics.

Fabio Petani - Via Settecamini 100, Rome
Goal 13 - Fighting Climate Change
Artist Fabio Petani has interpreted Goal 13 by representing a melting glacier that turns into a desert. All enclosed within an abstract hourglass that stands for the passage of time, which is precious for saving our ecosystem.

Barbara Oizmud - Metro B Ponte Mammolo, Rome
Goal 14 - Life Underwater
Barbara Oizmud has created a capillary reflection on life underwater and the increasing spread of microplastics within the seas. The work on the Ponte Mammolo subway wall is called Pollen, and is dedicated to aquatic flora and fauna. The artist reasoned about Goal 14 of the UN 2030 Agenda, which aims to “conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development.” The result of Oizmud’s work is a hybrid creature that ended up in the depths, the cause and at the same time the cure of a collective human-generated wound. Pollen is person and animal, it is object and coral. Pollen is a mirror of our society.

Natalia Rak - Via Settecamini 108, Rome
Goal 15 - Life on Earth
Goal 15 is represented by Natalia Rak’s work: a child, or perhaps a creature of the woods while sitting on a log, as in the fairy tale tradition, plays the flute, which through its melody gives life to a dance of plants, flowers and butterflies. The creature is sitting on a cut log, a symbol of deforestation and desertification, and it is on it that he plays, instilling positivity and hope: it is not too late to stop and start new life.

Manuela Merlo in art HUMAN - Via di Settecamini 102, Rome
Goal 16 - Peace, justice and solid institutions
Theartist represented goal 16 by depicting a woman, a symbol of justice. The woman’s face is embellished with two pendants, symbolizing the scales of justice, while she is intent on embracing and caring for a white dove, a symbol of peace. We find the latter symbol in a new form around the figure: two paper dove-origins that point us to the fragility of peace.

NSN997 - Volterra Middle School, Via Vito Volterra 190, San Paolo, Rome
Goal 17 - Partnership for the Goals
Thelast point of the UN 2030 Agenda is a summary of the previous ones and gives the key to achieving all of them: the basis must be collaboration between countries and a global economic and political harmony. NSN997 have created a wall titled Cooperation representing the union of different disciplines, knowledge, cultures, ethnicities and generations that make up the central ring, a symbol of a new, ecological, egalitarian and sustainable vision of the world.

The project, promoted by the Department of Culture of Roma Capitale, is the winner of the Public Notice Contemporaneamente Roma 2020-2021-2022 curated by the Department of Cultural Activities and is carried out in collaboration with SIAE and under the patronage of Municipalities IV and VIII.

For info: www.streetartforrights.it

Street art under the banner of sustainability: concluded the 3rd edition of Street Art for Rights

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