Street Art by Ella&Pitr – In Quadrivio di Campagna, Italy

📂 Artwork File · Sourced factsErosElla & Pitr · 2015 · Piazza Angeli della Strada, Quadrivio di CampagnaGround muralAbout 120 × 30 mURBAN AREA 20151Cars were banned from the market square on 27 July 2015, the day painting began; the ban was soon declared permanent.Art Vibes2The artists subtitled it “How to stop sucking your thumbs”; on 1 August local children gathered on it to draw what the square should become.Artribune201527 JulPainting starts20151 AugKids’ workshop201518 SepSeen from space✕Oct 2018Gone, cars back2025AprBuilding site2026JunPark 59% paidRead the full file →

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“Angeli della Strada” square, known to the inhabitants of Quadrivio di Campagna, in the province of Salerno in Italy, as “Market Square”, these days has undergone some radical changes that have transformed from simple expanse of asphalt and concrete, in a real work of art.

The French artists of St. Etienne Ella & Pitr invited by a.DNA for the project URBAN AREA open spaces, with their surgery have radically changed not only the aesthetics of the square, but also the idea that in the square there could be more than the market of the Monday. And the rest of the week? Parking, often vandalized at the expense of residents forced to hear loud noises at night and not be able to use the space of the square during the day, not even to let the kids that aren’t free to play.

Now a giant resting on a square of about 3600 square meters, 120m long and 30m wide, nicknamed “Eros”, shows us “How to stop sucking your fingers” and start to really change something, activating and not remaining passive. Change not only aesthetically or superficially, but engage in making the place we are suited to our needs, without delegating others to do so, without waiting for someone else to solve the problems: waking up and getting out of torpor is a duty of every citizen. Recover and “live” really their neighborhood and their city is a start of no small importance.

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