Italian and Iranian artists in the "URBAN ART UNITES" project

For one year, every two months, two street artists, one Italian and one Iranian will exhibit on the external facade of the residence of the Italian Ambassador in Tehran. This is the “Urban Art Unites” project, inaugurated with the works of Paolo Bordino (stage name PAO) and the Iranian Mehdi Ghadyanloo, author of many murals in Tehran.

Therefore the external façade of the Ambassador's Residence has been transformed for the occasion into an en plein air canvas that houses two distinct works but conceived as a continuation of each other, aimed at reinterpreting, using avant-garde language and forms of street art, the ancient and understood cultural link between Italy and Iran.

The works will remain on display and be accessible to the public for two months, only to be replaced by two new works by another Iranian and an Italian artist. The process will thus continue with the presentation of new works every two months until the end of the project in September 2020.

"The 'URBAN ART UNITES' project - declared the Italian Ambassador Giuseppe Perrone opening the exhibition - brings together Iranian and Italian artists, who engage in a 12-month artistic adventure to express, through the creative language of urban art, a sense of common belonging and a unified vision of the world, nature and relationships between people, testifying to the universal value of art and its message of brotherhood and solidarity among peoples ". “Tehran is today a city of exceptional artistic vitality and therefore the natural location for an initiative of such scale and significance,” he concluded.