Street Marta
Street Marta – Monitoring Art Archive is a spin-off project born inside Project Marta, developed by the working group formed at the beginning of 2018 and first presented on the occasion of the Artefiera 2018 weekend with the talk “Beyond the Wall”.
The group’s intent is to compare experiences and knowledge on the ways urban art can be preserved and turned into museum objects, sharing the outcome through publicly available literature. To this end, Project Marta – Monitoring Art Archive focuses in particular on preventive conservation and the maintenance of artworks, of any kind — including urban artworks that only apparently seem destined to disappear in a short time.
To do this properly, the artists themselves are directly involved and, again through interviews, we reconstruct together the phases of research and production, the reasons behind the choice of techniques and materials, the final delivery of their work. For movable and collectable works, this last point concerns transport, packing and setup; for urban art, it concerns the street, and therefore different criteria — no less attentive to guaranteeing that the walls survive over time.
Because obviously not all urban art is illegal, abusive, a provocation or a vandalistic gesture — and therefore fading away in a short time is not necessarily its destiny.
