Gruppo 12

* 1986
+ 2006
worked in Roma / Italia

The members, women artists of the IAWA – International Association of Women Arts -, founded the group in 1986, to develop an artistic installation project in an open space, with the specific intent of intervening on the urban fabric of the city. The initial idea starts from the concept that the metropolis is an organism in continuous transformation and the symbol of this transformation is the “metal fence” of the construction sites, often defaced by graffiti and torn advertising posters. The link with art, which is transformation to the maximum, is therefore natural.... Art is not only the transformation of raw material: colors, supports, etc., but also visual material and linguistic and cultural material. Each work of art is therefore documentation of a transformation that produces another transformation in those who benefit from it. Consequently, the combination of these two powerful symbols – the “metal fence”, as a symbol of the physical transformation of the habitat, and the artistic operation, as a symbol of the psychological transformation of the citizen – acts to enhance both.

Polisgramma is born: a Greek word composed by “polis”, which means “city”, and “gramma”, noun deriving from the verb “grapho”, which means: I write, I print, I engrave, I draw. So Polisgramma is in a broad sense “the brand of the city as a synthesis of what the city imprints in each of us”.

Since the birth of Polisgramma these artists have made about 40 interventions. [Quelle: https://web.archive.org/web/20240220105148/http://www.gabriellaporpora.it/curriculum/]