Pisa, Palazzo Blu: urban art live performance kicks off with international artists

A calendar of live performances with internationally recognized artists is scheduled until April 3, 2022, as part of the exhibition ATTITUDE | Graffiti writing, Street art, Neo Muralism, underway in Pisa at Palazzo Blu. The project is curated by Gianguido Grassi, produced by Start - Open you eyes and produced by Fondazione Pisa, under the patronage of the Municipality of Pisa, the Province of Pisa, the Region of Tuscany, the Regional Council of Tuscany, with the support of the University of Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore and Scuola Normale Superiore Sant’Anna.

The first live performance is expected between Jan. 28 and Jan. 30: it will be street artist Joys, an exponent of writing, whose geometries developed from a research path on the aesthetic representation of writing, are now recognized on institutional buildings in Europe, Asia and the United States. Originally from Padua, Joys will paint the exhibition entrance panel and the base on which his sculpture in the exhibition rests: a dialogue between second and third dimensions, between painting and sculpture. February 25 will be followed by a performance by 2501 from Milan: his Machine will draw a bridge between the pictorial dimension and the dimension of time, through software capable of translating marks on paper into sound waves in real time. Finally, from Saturday, March 26, to April 3, it will be the turn of New York-based street artist Gaia: she will create Tuttomondo live, in homage to Keith Haring, the protagonist of an extensive ongoing exhibition at Palazzo Blu. Gaia’s solo show will be enriched with six more works, one for each continent, tracing landscapes and cultures encountered.

ATTITUDE| Graffiti writing, Street art, Neo Muralism brings together the many forms of urban art, from graffiti to abstractionism. On display are about 100 works, all from the artists’ archives and important collections. The display kicks off in the library and continues in the rooms on the fourth floor of Palazzo Blu to tell the story of the various facets of urban art, from writing to monumental art. Beginning this month, the Rooms of the Historical Dwelling of Palazzo Blu will open to contemporary art, hosting some works by ATTITUDE artists, in a dialogue between ancient art and urban art.

Forty-five personalities and one hundred works tell the story for the first time in Tuscany of a generation of artists, almost all of them in their forties, who, after beginning to express themselves in the street in an unauthorized way, now work with a refined language, in continuity with the rupture and avant-garde art of the 1960s. After the solo show of 108, one of the leading exponents of abstract post-graffiti art that opened the exhibition last December, Joys, Gaia and 2501 will be the protagonists of three different happenings. Each of them will also star in a temporary solo show within the main exhibition, which will change every month.

Complementing Attitude | Graffiti writing, Street art, Neo Muralism, artists from the international urban scene will arrive in Pisa to paint new walls and enrich the heritage of contemporary public works, just starting in April.

Pisa, Palazzo Blu: urban art live performance kicks off with international artists

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