UCL, Department of Italian
School of European Languages, Culture and Society
Wednesday 20 January 2016, 6:00 p.m.
UCL, Italian Seminar Room, Foster Court 351
Jessica Stewart
The Changing Face of Street Art in Rome
As the modern day street art phenomenon explodes globally, with an ever
increasing race by cities to produce large-scale murals in the name of
“urban requalification,” this talk explores the development of street art in
Rome. Arriving to Italy’s capital city late compared to international
centres such as London, New York, and Paris, over the course of the last
15 years street art has moved from a strictly underground movement to a
city sponsored cultural spectacle. The exploration of techniques, from
stickers to large-scale murals, and key artists, such as Sten + Lex,
Agostino Iacurci, and Alice Pasquini, and their development highlight the
evolving nature of creating art in a public context and the complexities of
moving from illegal to legal work.
JESSICA STEWART is a Rome-based creative producer and
photographer with an MA in Renaissance Studies from UCL. Focusing
her work on urban art, in 2013 she published the book Street Art Stories
Rome (Mondo Bizzarro Publications) and in 2014 her photographic
archive of street art in Rome was acquired by the Treccani encyclopaedia.
She has curated several exhibitions in Rome and actively works with
artists to produce large-scale urban art projects.
ALL WELCOME