News, United States, New York City, 27 July 2012
This site aims to be a journey through time in my New York, from the late 80's up to today.
The first time I saw the real New York City I was fascinated and enchanted by this City.
All this would not have been possible if I had not met on this trip Carlo Medori, to whom I owe all my gratitude for showing me the true essence of the City. He had infected me with his keen on murales and on few-travelled streets and quarters full of life.
Just move a little bit from Manhattan to find yourself in very different neighborhoods, where you can breathe smells, tastes coming from around the world, as if there were many small microcosms of different cultures living in one big community.
Years of traveling have given me much satisfaction, both on an artistic and personal level; 11 years ago I exposed about 40 photos in my solo exhibition in Milan, Italy, where I met my husband!
He is following me in my travels and he is a particularly valuable aid in the construction of the site in its entirety.
What came out and is visible on the website is my personal journey through the maze of this multi-faceted city, told through the murales, which are true art.
The motto "Graffiti is an art, not a crime!" is through and through appropriate.
Murales "tell a story", have a life, sometimes short, sometimes long, they are important from the cultural, social and political standpoints.
Murales tell about the hopes, fears, tensions, wars in act and finished, drug problem, leave a memory of missing persons, more or less famous. They are a way of understanding reality, to understand the feelings and the disruptions that are in place; keep a track of all this I think is enormously important.
Over the years the lives of the murales is dramatically changed, too. While until a few years ago you could ran into murales in every neighborhood, right now everything is almost entirely concentrated at 5 Pointz, as if there was a need to "close" this art, to confine it to a few walls. It is a shame because these walls reflect the soul, the sufferings and hopes of an entire country.
And now, if you want to follow me in my through 20-years journey, just visit http://www.newyorkmurales.com
The first time I saw the real New York City I was fascinated and enchanted by this City.
All this would not have been possible if I had not met on this trip Carlo Medori, to whom I owe all my gratitude for showing me the true essence of the City. He had infected me with his keen on murales and on few-travelled streets and quarters full of life.
Just move a little bit from Manhattan to find yourself in very different neighborhoods, where you can breathe smells, tastes coming from around the world, as if there were many small microcosms of different cultures living in one big community.
Years of traveling have given me much satisfaction, both on an artistic and personal level; 11 years ago I exposed about 40 photos in my solo exhibition in Milan, Italy, where I met my husband!
He is following me in my travels and he is a particularly valuable aid in the construction of the site in its entirety.
What came out and is visible on the website is my personal journey through the maze of this multi-faceted city, told through the murales, which are true art.
The motto "Graffiti is an art, not a crime!" is through and through appropriate.
Murales "tell a story", have a life, sometimes short, sometimes long, they are important from the cultural, social and political standpoints.
Murales tell about the hopes, fears, tensions, wars in act and finished, drug problem, leave a memory of missing persons, more or less famous. They are a way of understanding reality, to understand the feelings and the disruptions that are in place; keep a track of all this I think is enormously important.
Over the years the lives of the murales is dramatically changed, too. While until a few years ago you could ran into murales in every neighborhood, right now everything is almost entirely concentrated at 5 Pointz, as if there was a need to "close" this art, to confine it to a few walls. It is a shame because these walls reflect the soul, the sufferings and hopes of an entire country.
And now, if you want to follow me in my through 20-years journey, just visit http://www.newyorkmurales.com
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