A spectacular mural that blends with the landscape has been created in Basilicata, Italy

In Vietri di Potenza, the monumental mural by street artist Antonino Perrotta (aka Attorrep) created for OSA Around, the urban art festival that brings street art and its avant-garde around southern Italy, will be unveiled tomorrow. The mural is, in terms of size and extension (170 square meters over 17 meters in height), among the largest in southern Italy, and has the peculiarity of being anamorphic, that is, of merging with the surrounding landscape if it is observed from a specific point of view established prospectively.

Strongly desired by the city administration of Vietri di Potenza for the project The Walls of Legality, the work is a reflection by the Calabrian street artist depicting a little girl watering her land, “a symbol of respect for the environment,” reads a note, “of belonging to one’s history and an example of purity and legality.” The date for the inauguration is indeed symbolic: July 19 is the day of the Via D’Amelio massacre in Palermo, where Judge Paolo Borsellino and the five agents of his escort lost their lives.

After this first intervention, three more will follow until the date of May 23, 2021 (National Legality Day), the date on which occurred in 1992 the Capaci massacre in which Giovanni Falcone, his wife Francesca Morvillo (also a magistrate) and the agents of the escort Vito Schifani, Rocco Dicillo and Antonio Montinaro lost their lives, closing a path aimed at raising awareness of principles of legality and transparency, involving citizens in the cultural and social life of the community.

Under the Patronage of the City of Vietri di Potenza, promoted by the Haz Art Cultural Association under the artistic direction of Antonino Perrotta, a young adamantine artist and creator of the festival, OSA Around aims to continue the work begun with OSA - Operazione Street Art, the original festival born in 2017 in Diamante, the City of Murals (Cosenza), one of the most painted villages in Italy, which with more than 330 murals in its historic center can be defined as a real open-air museum. Haz Art has distinguished itself since the beginning by proposing activities of urban redevelopment and regeneration through this particular art form, collaborating with leading street artists on the national and European scene (including Pablo Atchugarry and Baruch Kadmon, Sfhir, Man ò Matic , Solo, Diamond) and forging collaborations with important festivals in the field, such as Manufactory Project (Comacchio, Ferrara), Graffitea (Cheste, Spain), Biennale MarteLive (Rome), Serpis Urban Art (Gandìa, Spain).

Carrying forward the concept of muralism, understood as a path of regeneration of contemporary public art and revaluation of the territory, OSA intends to open a dialogue between art and architecture, between space and environment, with the aim of rediscovering the places, enhancing their beauty through the integration of street art in the artistic complex of cities and villages of southern Italy.

A spectacular mural that blends with the landscape has been created in Basilicata, Italy

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