graffiti phenomenon: 75 million in damages Corriere della Sera
They love to death and wielding a spray can. He 15, she 13. To seal an eternal feeling, choose a green paint. And a wall that has 1,500 years of history. The words "I love you more than yesterday and less than tomorrow." Last Wednesday afternoon, the center of Ravenna, the police blocked the two children who stutter in front of the question, "Do you know what you smeared?". It is a wall near the Basilica of San Vitale, the most important Byzantine architecture in the West. The fifteen will be tried by the Juvenile Court of damage Bologna.I There are also the young lovers of Ravenna behind the millions of written, tags, drawings and murals that color (or dirty) the walls of Italian cities. He says a search of the city police of Milan: a boy in two, between 13 and 18 years, at least when practiced on a wall with a can or a marker. Graffiti that are rampant. And they cost. The major Italian cities are spending amounting to almost € 25 million a year to clean up the facades of buildings and fix vandalized public areas. The local transport companies are most affected. Simple: trains are palettes that lead works - or junk - around the city, the subways have the charm of the underground, tram and bus windows are ideal for a great trend, the incision with the cutting edge . The replacement cost of the glasses to ATM Milan 2 million and a half years. Adding up the cost of transport companies, railways, superintendents and private, they go at least another 50 million euro in damages and ripuliture.A each his students of the sociology of deviance from the University of Bologna took to the streets and have them counted. Pen and paper, in little more than a week have probed the walls of San Vitale and Reno areas at the end of December, the Corriere di Bologna published the results of your search: 1713 'works' counted. But what matters is the proportion: 119 graffiti every hundred inhabitants, more than one each. With an alarming level of proliferation. Because in September the City had spent 21,000 euro to clean its streets considered by students. It means that those graffiti (90 per cent in writing and tags that have nothing to artistic) occurred in three months, at a rate of about 20 a day. For the other cities is difficult to get numbers. Milan is only an estimate of Assoedilizia, that the buildings were defaced more than 40 000. Other statistics show that Milan and Roma has a contingent of about 2 000 graffiti head in Bologna are a thousand. To understand the spread of the phenomenon you can apply to traders. In Milan they sell 20,000 cans of writers every six months, each "ball" (as they call in Rome) and costs about € 3 mezzo.I graffiti projects, elusive world. Hard to classify: it collects money and is filled with four artists arrived to museums, twelve years old and forties, anarchists and neo-Nazis, ultra-lovers and students. While art critics debate (works or vandalism?), Municipalities waver: Milan is the leader of the repression, but also organizes the largest Italian exhibition on graffiti (Sweet art, street art), the mayor threatens Cofferati Action code Criminal 'Turin, is a pioneer of dialogue and writing legalized; Rome seeks to bring together the two ways, and January 31 on Capitol Hill organized a seminar between Italian and European cities. On the first front, half-model looks to Italy Turin. It starts from a premise: "There is a creativity which is interesting given space," says the councilor for urban decoration, Ilda Curti. With a warning: "A covenant to agree how and where." So in 2000, was born Murarte. Grant of walls, License for writers, private warehouses that have to be painted. The commandment to distinguish between aesthetic expression and pure vandalism. Dialogue on the one hand and suppress the other. You that it seeks to do as Rome, with two projects: cROMiAe artis Magistra and Rome. The second is devoted to high school, but also medium-sized "because - explain the offices of the urban decor - kids start with the cans even at 10-11 years." The result of the dialogue are three different locations (Laurentina metro station, subway station Tuscolana and San Lorenzo) reclassified from graffiti. Since the explosion of the drop in gray color. On the other hand, there is Milan. That despite the provocation councilor Vittorio Sgarbi ("Graffiti of the center Leoncavallo are the Sistine Chapel of our times"), remains the capital of zero tolerance. A special team of vigilant hunt down the writer. The headquarters of the newly formed National Association of graffiti. But also at the forefront of cleaning up. The model produced the Lombard campaign I lav Milan, through which have been cleaned up more than 14 000 private buildings in three years. The AMSA (Municipalities-played the garbage) offers a free initial cleaning after you pay for maintenance. But only 20 percent of the buildings adhere to phase two, offered at discounted prices. The fury graffiti off when it comes to open your wallet.
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