With the inauguration of the first mural Le Costellazioni di Roma (The Constellations of Rome) by Pietro Ruffo, the Metro C construction site in Piazza Venezia has become an open-air art gallery, transforming the construction silos into a work of art.
Part of Progetto Murales, this first installation, promoted by the consortium led by Webuild and Vianini Lavori, has transformed the iconic square into an innovative cultural platform that projects itself into the future, thanks to the display of significant contemporary artworks created by artists of international renown.
In fact, Progetto Murales was created to invite citizens and tourists to reflect on the evolution of cities and how infrastructural projects should elaborate a new model of a city on a human scale.
For this reason, every four months, the silos of Piazza Venezia will host the unpublished works of six artists who will exhibit their personal interpretation of the city's transformations, through the exploration of urban paradigms to promote an ongoing dialogue with Rome, transforming the construction site into an opportunity for urban regeneration.
After Ruffo, until December 2026, Elisabetta Benassi, Liliana Moro, Marinella Senatore, Toiletpaper and Nico Vascellari will realise the next works.
Details of the work
Costellazioni di Roma by Pietro Ruffo was created in two colours, white and blue. The constellations have been represented through the personifications of Rome's founding myths, human bodies, animals, anthropomorphic figures, under which the lines of Luigi Canina's ‘Topographic Map of Ancient Rome’ emerge.
The site-specific work by the Roman artist, who has transformed a building site, normally a place of discomfort for citizens, noise, smoke and dust into an unusual place of art, is 10 metres high and 64 metres wide and covers an area of almost 700 square metres.
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