Kriu project, neighborhoods like open-air museums: photos of the murals

CROTONE – The first four street art works created as part of the KRiu, KRotone Identità Urbane project, in collaboration between the Municipality of Crotone and the Gulìa Urbana association, were inaugurated on Thursday 6 June. The four murals, two in the Trecento Alloggi district and two in Fondo Gesù, represent the first step of the project which overall involves the creation of ten mural works which will be carried out in other districts of the city and for which the administration is already working to realize them during 2025. Neighborhoods which, in the intentions of the municipal administration, will be transformed into a real open-air museum.
The inauguration ceremony took place in front of the work created by Aches which portrayed three children who live in the building playing football on a wall of approximately 110 m2. Numerous residents were present, many overlooking the balconies overlooking the work. In the same neighborhood there is also the large mural depicting Pythagoras, created by the Spanish Kraser, which acts as a business card for those who enter Crotone.
In the Trecento accommodation district, however, the Belgian artist Kitsune painted the face of a woman surrounded by oleanders and illuminated by the Calabrian sun on the entire façade of a public housing condominium; on the opposite side Piet Rodriguez created his own personal modern interpretation of Milo, the Crotone athlete who won the ancient Olympics, taking inspiration from a 1763 painting by Joseph-Benoît Suvée.