If you haven’t yet made it to the Scala Mercalli Street Art Exhibition at the Auditorium, you still have a few weeks as the show has been extended through 25 July. It’s a strange exhibit, as part of it is hung in the parking garage of the Auditorium (see above) and part of it is in the much more refined space that is the foyer of the building designed by Renzo Piano. Furthermore, the street art doesn’t look quite right in either of these settings: there’s a lot of art, it varies a great deal in quality, and the lighting in both spaces is simply abominable.
That said, we’re extremely pleased about the fact that Rome is giving time and space to its under-appreciated urban artists. We expressed some of our enthusiasm last week, when we previewed the show with an image of TV Boy’s Colosseum Graffiti.
This week, we bring you some of our other favorite images from the exhibit, including this nice stencil-collage by Sten (below) in which one of his usual (and always impressive) stencils is juxtaposed against a compelling collection of Rome’s typical streetside publicity.
