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Urban regeneration pilot project promoted by the Gabinetto del Sindaco - Ufficio di Scopo Politiche Giovanili in partnership with Zètema Progetto Cultura.

A creative and innovative project that, through figurative art and street art interventions by young artists, intends to breathe new life into 6 disused Local Police cabins, redeveloping them in a cultural key and transforming them into an artistic element that dialogues with the great and eternal beauty of Rome. Among its objectives are also those of enhancing the relationship with the territory where the cabins are located while respecting the cultural, historical and artistic heritage; of expressing integration and respect for differences; and of reinforcing issues related to the environment, nature and sustainability.

The young artists, authors of the 6 works in total, were selected by the special commission of Roma Capitale - made up of experts from the Maxxi, the Sovrintendenza Capitolina and Zètema Progetto Cultura - who judged the best 6 proposals out of the 68 that took part in the Cabin Art public notice.

LIST OF PROJECTS
Cabin 1
Piazza Vittorio Emanuele II (Municipio I)
Work Up to You by BiceLuna (Federica Mancini)

Born in Rome in 1998, she graduated from the Liceo Artistico, specializing in Figurative Art, and then went on to the Accademia di Belle Arti. She is currently involved in editorial graphics, working as a decorator and illustrator.

UP TO YOU The work created by the young Roman artist invites everyone to reflect on our future, of man and the planet, asking the question "Should we delete everything?". The artistic intervention aims to make us reflect on crucial issues of our time, such as the melting of glaciers, the devastation of Amazonian landscapes, the slow extinction of animal species that are important for our eco-system, inviting each of us to deal with them. Human beings are prone to self-conditioning and getting stuck in fictitious realities full of misinformation, to choose not to think and do what is most comfortable, even if unethical. But seeing the world from behind a screen is not the same as actually experiencing it.

Cabin 2
Vico Jugario/Via Petroselli (Municipio I)
work IANUS by Andrea Piccinno (ADR)
Andrea Piccinno was born in Lecce in 1991. After obtaining a diploma in painting decoration, he graduated in Art History in Rome. He has exhibited in group and solo shows and participated in several artistic interventions of urban regeneration with mural paintings, including those at the Mercato dell'Appagliatore in Ostia (2015) and at the Villaggio Globale (2018).

IANUS The artistic intervention realised unfolds on the four sides of the cage like a continuous narration that, starting from the face of the Janus in shadow, continues with the representation of Nature enveloping the Earth, represented as an enormous orange sphere, which is then revealed and "discovered" to the gaze of the illuminated Janus. The cyclical reading of the work means that, in order to observe it in its entirety, the spectator must turn all around it.

The choice of depicting Janus, the famous two-faced god, is linked to the location of the sentry box: the archaeological area of the Forum Holitorium, where the republican temples dedicated to Spes, Juno Sospita and Janus stood, of which some remains and the columns incorporated in the church of San Nicola in Carcere are visible. The depiction of Janus thus relates to the territory, with the intention of enhancing its cultural, historical and artistic heritage. For the depiction of the ancient deity, the artist was inspired by the famous 2nd century B.C. clay sculpture known as the two-faced Head of Janus, from Vulci. The work also draws attention to environmental issues, highlighting nature and sustainability, which are necessary for the survival of the Earth.

Cabin 3
Via Casilina/Via di Tor Pignattara (Municipio V)
Work Rifiorire by NIAN (Eugenia Chiasserini)

A Florentine painter and artist, she places the female universe at the centre of her work. She has participated in group exhibitions and realised numerous street art interventions in Florence, Livorno, Viareggio, Pistoia and other cities in Tuscany and upper Lazio. Her interventions in Rome include the live painting 'Memoria Residua' in 2022 for the national 'Youth and Memory' Day at the former Acquario Romano.

Rebirth The artist, influenced by the ancient divinities Mater Matuta and Fortuna, whose temples in Rome protected trade between Romans, Greeks, Etruscans, Phoenicians and Carthaginians, imagined bringing these two figures together again to bear witness to the history of the place through a contemporary depiction. The work represented is therefore intended to be a symbolic restitution for the Roman community and, at the same time, a trace left by the artist of her very personal journey that has always investigated the role of female subjectivity in society, between past myths and present conditions.

Cabin 4
Piazzale Labicano ( Municipio VII)
work Al suono di Roma by Leonardo Crudi

Born in Rome in 1988, he discovered the world of graffiti at a very early age. For a few years now, he has been working on posters for the 'cinema and poetry' project, disseminated in the city of Rome as works of urban art. In 2020, with Elia Novecento, he created the murals 'Anna Magnani' and 'Pier Paolo Pasolini' in Casal Bernocchi for the urban regeneration programme Culturalize Yourself.

To the sound of Rome Starting from the idea of not wanting to camouflage or cancel "the booth object", Leonardo Crudi wanted to maintain its original function from both a practical and an aesthetic point of view, enhancing its shapes and geometries in a play of contrasting warm and cold colours, thus making it aesthetically and conceptually dialogue with the city.  The geometric shapes define a rhythmic composition that follows the alternation of passers-by, cars and trams around the booth, allowing glimpses of small original sections of its surface as a symbolic reference to the past that resurfaces everywhere in the streets of the capital, in a frenetic and ever-changing present. The cold, original colours of the cabin are then contrasted with warm colours reminiscent of Rome and its ancient and modern dwellings. The figurative subjects in turn appear sharp but as if suspended in an almost metaphysical backdrop. They are the materialisation of a dream-like memory induced by a poem by Valentino Zeichen on Rome, taken from the book 'Passeggiate Romane' (2004). Thus "The Sound of Rome" is celebrated by placing in alternating continuity the noises, the silences, the times of all the melodies of Rome, between history, traffic, contemporaneity and antiquity.

Cabin 5
Circonvallazione Gianicolense/Via Ottavio Gasparri ( Municipio XII)
The Pinkish Box intervention by Vittorio Pannozzo

Born in Fondi (Latina), he graduated in Design at the Sapienza University of Rome. He works in interior design and graphics.

The Pinkish Box The idea behind Vittorio Pannozzo's artistic intervention was to consider the box not as a support on which to create a work of art, but to turn the object itself into a work of public design, starting from its iconic image and then totally distorting it through the use of colours - light blue, pink and purple - that were hitherto foreign to the object. A choice aimed at raising public awareness, debunking the link that certain colours are attributed to gender and sex. A new object has thus been created, which inevitably alters its perception in the collective imagination. An object that invites openness and exploration through the effects of reflected light, perceivable from different angles.

Cabin 6
Piazza di Villa Carpegna (Municipio XIII)
Geometric Pattern work by MOTOREFISICO (the duo Lorenzo Pagliara and Gianmaria Zonfrillo)

MOTOREFISICO Artistic duo composed of Lorenzo Pagliara and Gianmaria Zonfrillo, both Roman architects and designers, who work in various fields including interior decoration, three-dimensional installations, staging and video art. Since 2015, they have been designing walls and flooring for homes, schools, offices, hotels and clubs. Their artistic interventions that combine tape art, interior design and street art are characterised by optical illusions and minimalist colour scheme.

Geometric Pattern For the pictorial intervention on the four sides of the booth located in Piazza di Villa Carpegna, the artistic duo chose a geometric pattern, an element that connotes their stylistic signature. The design, realised in black and white, is inspired by the geometric compositions that, starting from the decorative/abstract plots of the Roman mosaic, have then constituted one of the characteristic features of both the ancient and modern history of our country and more particularly of the city of Rome, passing through the Michelangelo period and arriving at Carlo Maderno. More recently, this compositional thought has also been taken up by some architects from Lazio. The decoration scheme of the cabin is that of camouflage: the pattern that 'dresses' it in this new garment enhances the volumetric qualities of the structure, exalting its lines and radically transforming the object in question.