Roma, Italy. 31st December, 2024. New Maupal’s (1. 2.) street art piece spotted in Borgo Pio, near Saint Peter’s Square and so the Vatican City. The stencil - made few days after the beginning of the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee (3.) - shows a classic yellow bus stop of an imaginary Viale Della Pace / Boulevard of Peace’s stop. The bus - in its imaginary journey from hope to peace - stops at: Hope, Fraternity, Empathy, Respect, Equality, Forgiveness, Tolerance,...
more »Roma, Italy. 31st December, 2024. New Maupal’s (1. 2.) street art piece spotted in Borgo Pio, near Saint Peter’s Square and so the Vatican City. The stencil - made few days after the beginning of the Catholic Church’s 2025 Jubilee (3.) - shows a classic yellow bus stop of an imaginary Viale Della Pace / Boulevard of Peace’s stop. The bus - in its imaginary journey from hope to peace - stops at: Hope, Fraternity, Empathy, Respect, Equality, Forgiveness, Tolerance, Compassion, Love, Mercy and Peace. At the bus stop, a Swiss Guard is checking is watch while waiting for the bus, which is allegedly late.
«Mauro Pallotta, aka MAUPAL, was born in Rome in 1972. Here, he first attended the A. Caravillani Art School and later the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. The places of the artist's childhood and adolescence undoubtedly influenced the contents of his works: the proximity to the places of politics and the Vatican, and with it the intellectual stimuli of a multicultural city like Rome, have ensured that his sensibility could be enriched by a strong and natural propensity to use irony and political satire as vehicles of artistic expression, making his works heralds of messages of marked social and humanitarian relevance […]» (1.).
Footnotes & Links:
1.
https://www.maupal.net/en
2.
https://www.facebook.com/maupal.artist
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«Mauro Pallotta, aka MAUPAL, was born in Rome in 1972. Here, he first attended the A. Caravillani Art School and later the Academy of Fine Arts in Rome. The places of the artist's childhood and adolescence undoubtedly influenced the contents of his works: the proximity to the places of politics and the Vatican, and with it the intellectual stimuli of a multicultural city like Rome, have ensured that his sensibility could be enriched by a strong and natural propensity to use irony and political satire as vehicles of artistic expression, making his works heralds of messages of marked social and humanitarian relevance […]» (1.).<br />
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Footnotes & Links:<br />
1. https://www.maupal.net/en<br />
2. https://www.facebook.com/maupal.artist<br />
3. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Jubilee](https://www.lucaneve.com/img-get/I0000mr435aYiXXE/s/800/800/IMLN6815.jpg)
