Unipd supports the 2023 Super Walls Biennale Street Art Festival

19.06.2023

The University of Padua supports Street Art: from 20 May to 4 June, the University of Padua participated in the 2023 Super Walls Biennale Street Art Festival by making the outside of several of its buildings available to various artists.

This year, the University made the walls of the Engineering classroom (aula P300 of via Luzzatti 10, Padua) available to the artist Peeta. With works seen throughout Padua, Peeta uses his background in sculpture and industrial design by transforming flat surfaces into three-dimensional and anamorphic paintings.  His use of geometric shapes interacts with the surrounding environment, which aims to alter the perception of space. Last year, Peeta created a limited edition collection of t-shirts and merchandise for the 800 anniversary of the University of Padua that featured a look towards the future. 

The Agripolis Campus of Legnaro hosted the street artist Yama from 27 May to 3 June. The featured work entitled Lo studio delle arti, is an adaptation Yama’a aesthetics signature inspired by the historic Palazzo Bo. The work draws an artistic connection between the frescoes found in Palazzo Bo’s Aula Magna with the coats of arms and sculpture Elena Lucrezia Cornaro Piscopia found in the courtyards of the historic site.

The Botanical Garden of the University of Padua unveiled works by the artist Shife V.H.RO. Here, a public transportation vehicle operated by Aps Holding features plants, flowers, and other mystical inhabitants of the earth much like the Botanical series of pictorial works recently created by the same artist.

Now in its third edition, Padua Street Art Biennial Super Walls artists display their works on the walls across each of the thirteen municipalities involved in the ambitious project. Focused on the theme of respect, as proposed by the curators Carlo Silvestrin and Dominique Stella, each mural offers a sense of redevelopment by embellishing central places that bring life to their communities such as schools, libraries, sports facilities as well as supermarkets and walls found within private domains.

Peeta previously collaborated with the University for the UniPD Super Walls 2021 Biennial Street Art Festival, which offered a refurbished aesthetic appeal to the walls of the Economics office (via Ugo Bassi) as his illusory talents brought volume to the building's surface.