We're not alone in our interest in the wall art of Ostiense, a gentrifying industrial district on the south end of the city center. For several weeks we've been walking the area, admiring the creativity and skill of artists from around the world.
For the most part, graffiti writers (some skilled, but working in a different vein from wall artists) and taggers (mostly just scribbling) have respected the larger works, leaving them untouched--or mostly so.
That's not the case with the geometric piece by Derek Bruno, below, a truncated version of the work of art we found here in Ostiense. The excellent app StreetArtRoma (links below) describes Bruno as a participant in the international Graffuturism movement, whose members are interested in Futurism's venture into velocity and movement. "In Rome," writes StreetArtRoma, "the artist painted a white line that represents the measure of reality, crossed by three squares in perspective, symbols of imagination." Sadly, the work known as Primary has been overwritten and severely damaged by an inferior talent, to the point where it has been virtually obliterated.
It so happens that we lived above Bruno's Primary, which is located in Piazza del Gazometro. We could see what's left of it--a yellow triangle--from our 9th-floor balcony. Here's what it looked like, from our balcony.
And what it looked like close up, thanks to a talentless graffiti "artist" named Guzo.
Vergogna. A shame.
Bill
StreetArtRoma has a Web site and Facebook page, but the streetartroma app is the best, by far. Here's the link to the Android App. There's an Apple one as well.
