The return of 167 Art Project, 2018 edition

From November 19th to December 3^rd  returns the second edition of 167 Art projects, two weeks dedicated to street art in the heart of the 167B district of Lecce.

Colors, monumental works, a new and dynamic sense of space will mark the days scheduled for the intervention. Buildings and their facades will be reformulated and reconsidered as a blank canvas in order  to bring out new perspectives. Artists involved are: Dimitris Taxis from Athene, Greece and Sabotaje Al Montaje from the Canary Islands, Spain, called to composite plots in the bosom to the sociological reading of the place and the surrounding reality.

The universal ability of street art to create new scenarios, open closed contexts, redesign possibilities, restore familiarity with those who live in the neighborhood and pass through it every day, through the interpretation of important social themes also linked to the tradition of the territory  will make artistic intervention with a possible view to redeveloping a peripheral context.

The success of the first edition and the warm welcome of the previous year is a fruit of continuity and strong self-determination of the community in the area. In fact this second edition was strongly desired by the parish community San Giovanni Battista, especially in the person of Don Gerardo and by the cohesion that the cause has arisen among its inhabitants. The community of the district has entrusted and requested the organization of this intervention and the artistic direction of 167B street, an urban art laboratory directed by Anna Kitlas and Chekos’art.