STEFANO DIVIZIA
Visual Design
“Working together allows us to exchange ideas, but you must compromise to create the final effect”
Aryz
Client:
Art Village A.P.S.
Project:
STREET
ART
VILLAGE
Piazza San Basilio
Role:
Visual Artist
Partnership:
Assessorato Politiche Giovanili
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
About:
Street Art Village is a Program of urban redevelopment and youth awareness through figurative urban arts, which aims to enhance the abandoned areas of the city by activating new places of social gathering through targeted interventions by young talents and emerging artists. The Street Art Village Program does not intend to run out in this first pilot session but to consolidate for the next few years in order to increase the tourist and cultural palatability of the City by creating visual stimuli, raising the quality of life of the individuals that cross it.
Street Art Village is a street art intervention realized in mixed technique (painting and collage) at the Faculty of Human Sciences of the University of L'Aquila, with the aim of renewing and making the Uni-area more liveable through visual stimuli aimed at giving added value to the university complex of a city currently dominated by post-earthquake site colors. The aim of the project is to give color and figurative stimuli to surfaces left to deterioration by promoting processes of youth social integration, encouraging forms of contemporary artistic expression. The frames that make up the artwork are intended as single frames which, in succession, give life to a complex signifying system. They are synonymous with movement, plurality of visions, shapes, sensibilities, tensions, styles, colors, cultures. They are the ideal frame and structure capable of accommodating and relating a sequence of elements and thoughts. For this purpose and to give continuity to the concept, the pictorial intervention in progress on the wall of Piazza San Basilio is thought of as a succession of modules, ten frames like the years after the earthquake. The single significant elements attentive to the experience of the City of L'Aquila, put in parallel historical characters, monumental elements, drama, reconstruction, memory, rebirth, opportunism, opportunities, socio-cultural and artistic tensions that cross it. The work, inside the urban redevelopment programnamed: Street Art Village, in partnership with the Municipality of L'Aquila and UnivAQ is a collaboration between the artists Stefano Divizia, Daniele Giuliani and Andrea Panarelli.
