Rome unveils second mural as part of art project in Piazza Venezia.

Marinella Senatore has become the second artist to transform the giant silos at the Metro C construction site in Piazza Venezia as part of the Murales open-air art project.

Senatore is the second of six contemporary artists, following Pietro Ruffo, whose work is displayed on the towering silos which blot out the view of the Vittoriano and offer a surface area of 640 square metres.

Originally from Italy's southern Campania region, Senatore is a Rome-based multidisciplinary artist with a background in music, fine arts and film.

She said her mural, titled Ci eleviamo alzando gli altri, was inspired by the "tradition of the theatre of Rome: the city as an open-air stage, with a series of suggestions that overlap - the architecture, the landscape, the construction site, the sounds, the colours".

Rome mayor Roberto Gualtieri inaugurated the project last December with the unveiling of Ruffo's Costellazioni di Roma, a blue and white mural that recalled constellations and legends associated with the city.

Ruffo, whose work is currently the focus of a major exhibition in Rome, said that creating a site-specific work in Piazza Venezia was a chance to "leave a trace in the historic fabric of this city".

The Murales scheme, promoted by the Metro C consortium led by Webuild and Vianini Lavori, aims to use the silos as an innovative platform to exhibit artwork by renowned contemporary artists.

The ephemeral project invites viewers to reflect on the "evolutionary nature of cities and the transformative role of infrastructure projects for a new model of a people-oriented city", according to Rome's website.

"The construction site in Piazza Venezia is a challenge and an inconvenience but it is also an opportunity" - Gualtieri said during the launch - "We thought it right for Rome to seize this opportunity to show the best of contemporary art".

Every four months, the silos of the Piazza Venezia construction site will host rotating new works by six artists who will be invited to interpret the concept of urban transformation.

The next participating artists will be Elisabetta Benassi, Liliana Moro, Toiletpaper and Nico Vascellari who will each take turns until December 2026.

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