Taranto, huge street art works to upgrade a city neighborhood

A street art operation to redevelop a Taranto neighborhood: this is the meaning of the T.R.U.st. project, which started last Sept. 7 and will see its ultimates tomorrow, Sunday 20. Six urban artists (Tony Gallo, Uno, Alice Pasquini, Cheone, Dimitris Taxis, Checko’s Art) have made as many interventions in the Paolo VI neighborhood and on the surfaces of the Acclavio Library and Ricciardi Gymnasium.

The project was created by the Rublanum Association, and is implemented by the Gulìa Urbana street art festival, curated by Giacomo Marinaro, Matteo Falbo, Andrea Falbo with the collaboration of Mario Pagnottella and the City of Taranto, in the person of Mayor Rinaldo Melucci and Councillor Fabrizio Manzulli.

The first three works of the project have already been completed and are by Cheone, Tony Gallo and Dimitris Taxis. Cheone (Cosimo Caiffa; Lecce, 1979) dedicated a mural to Alessandro Leogrande, a writer, journalist and man of culture from Taranto, who died prematurely in 2017 at the age of 40 and was considered a symbol of civil commitment and struggle for his investigations on the Mafia, on the “new slaves” of the countryside of the South and on caporalato, on migrations from the Balkans and Africa, and on the desaparecidos of Argentina, as well as for his activity in defense of the last. Tony Gallo (Padua, 1975), on the other hand, created a work entitled Sogni d’oro amici miei (Sweet dreams my friends), a 30-by-12-meter wall depicting stuffed animals dedicated to everyone, with the aim of offering a different vision of the Paolo VI neighborhood and Taranto. Finally, Dimitris Taxis (Szczecin, 1983) decorated a wall with one of his typical female portraits.

The project is finishing in these hours with work by Uno, Alice Pasquini and Checko’s Art.

Pictured is Tony Gallo’s mural.

Taranto, huge street art works to upgrade a city neighborhood

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