Rome, at Pietralata metro station a mural mangiasmog by Giovanni Anastasia

A new mangiasmong mural at Rome ’s Pietralata metro B station to contribute to the redevelopment of the neighborhood in the name of sustainable creativity and innovation. It is Usawa, a work by the young Neapolitan street artist Giovanni Anastasia created with Airlite eco-paintings as part of the Costellazioni project by Negroni, the well-known charcuterie brand, created to offer spaces for sharing and collaboration to the youth of Italy and to encourage initiatives and positive spillover effects on local areas and communities. “Usawa” in the Swahili language means “equilbrio,” and is also meant to be a gift for the entire city of Rome, inspired by the words “respect and balance,” chosen by about 600 Italian youths. The new mural, the second of the Constellations project after the one created in Borgo Universo (Aielli, L’Aquila), also executed by Anastasia but together with French artist Zoer, with its 70 square meters will allow the air to be cleaned as a grove of equal surface area would, absorbing the smog of about 15 euro 6 gasoline cars per day. Altogether, Usawa and Nuru (the Borgo Universo mural) are able to neutralize smog as an area of more than 100 square meters covered by tall trees would do, thus assimilating the smog of about 22 euro 6 gasoline cars each day.

"For this first year of Costellazioni," said Claudia Ferrari, Salumi Negroni marketing manager, “we have chosen two places that, because of their symbolic value, best express the concepts of enhancement and renewal that underlie the project. On the one hand, the small Borgo Universo represents an extraordinary example of rebirth thanks to art and astronomy; on the other hand, Rome is now one of the world’s great reference capitals for street art, which in recent years has become a strong driver of redevelopment, especially of the Capitoline suburbs. Even the choice of artists is not random: for the small Abruzzi suburb, we chose an internationally renowned street artist like Zoer, who worked four-handedly with Giovanni Anastasia; for the big metropolis, on the other hand, a young emerging street art artist, Anastasia precisely.”

Aimed at depicting the delicate balance of our lives, characterized by continuous movement, research and self-knowledge, Giovanni Anastasia’s mural reproduces a body in a balance that, in dance, becomes a creative force. “Just as a dancer or a circus performer seeks balance from the beginning to the end of his performance,” explained the Neapolitan artist, “so a craftsman, a potter or a farmer are driven by their own creative force. So with this work I intend to stimulate the imagination of the viewer and to enhance important themes such as respect for the land and know-how.”

Negroni’s Constellations project in Pietralata was realized under the artistic direction of Yourban 2030, in coordination with ATAC Rome. A collaboration that envisages the urban enhancement and redevelopment of the green area in front of the Pietralata metro B stop in the first months of 2023.

Rome, at Pietralata metro station a mural mangiasmog by Giovanni Anastasia

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