Carrara, street artists' action: seventeenth-century fountain gets acid colors

Awakening with surprise, yesterday, for the inhabitants of the historic center of Carrara: the niche of the seventeenth-century fountain in Via Finelli, located near the medieval Porta del Bozzo, in the suburb of Vezzala, was entirely covered with acid dyes, the back wall with shocking pink paint and the niche that houses the mask and the basin with lime green. The fountain was in a state of serious disrepair, amid piles of garbage and graffiti left by improvised writers (some of which can still be read on the side walls and on the marble seating of the benches arranged around the fountain): probable, therefore, that the action of (or the) street artists (who sign themselves “AGIO / ODIO / AGRO”) who have colored the fountain at night wanted to point the index finger precisely against the degradation of the work, against which, moreover, nothing a recent restoration (itself criticized for having literally dipped the marble mask in stucco) could do.

In the city, the spirits of the people of Carrara were divided, between the few who appreciated the intervention and emphasized its “good intention” (i.e., to bring to the attention of the citizenry a forgotten work that is in a poor state of preservation), and the many who instead cried havoc and hoped that the street artist could pay for what appears to many as damage done to an ancient work. Sparked by social media users, where there was no shortage of sarcastic comments.

Photo: Andrea Ghinoi via Facebook

Carrara, street artists' action: seventeenth-century fountain gets acid colors

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