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PISA PROTECTS ITALY'S STREET ART
The University of Pisa has launched a revolutionary scientific project developed after three years of study and experimentation aimed at the conservation of street art. Entitled SuPerStAr (Sustainable Preservation Strategies for Street Art) the team, headed by Prof. Francesca Modugno of the university Chemistry Faculty, has carried out trials on mural paintings all over Italy to develop the best techniques and materials to restore and preserve the wall paintings by various artists that decorate buildings in urban areas.
These paintings, many of which have been created by well-known international artists,
have often been vandalised, scribbled over, or have deteriorated due to exposure to weather conditions.
The team concentrated on iconic works of art, like Keith Haring's “Tuutomondo” dated1989, painted on the wall of the monastery of Sant'Antonio in Pisa, the colossal 1,300 sqm “Necesse”in Milan, created by Italian street artist SMOE to commemorate the victims of the COVID pandemic and works by Alessandro Caligaris e Mauro 149 in Turin, part of Italy's first open air Museum of Urban Art .
M, STENHOUSE
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