Fabio Petani Battles Climate Change with “OZONE & CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA” in Rome

OZONE & CARNEGIEA GIGANTEA

A quick look today at the Street Art for Rights Festival in Rome, Settecamini (IT), where this years theme was centered around the 17 goals of the UN 2030 agenda. It is not the only street art related effort that has chosen these goals as worthwhile to push, with the assumption that organizations like the United Nations and the World Economic Forum, neither of them an elected body, have our best interests in mind.

Fabio Petani. Ozone & Carnegiea Gigantea. Street Art For Rights. Rome, Italy. (photo © Fabio Petani)

For artist Fabio Petani, himself an Italian and a climate activist with his work, his new mural is naturally in support of Goal 13: Climate Action.

“The graphic composition recalls an hourglass where the passage of time is marked by the inexorable melting of the ice,” he tells us, “which also modifies the climate of desert areas.”

Fabio Petani. Ozone & Carnegiea Gigantea. Street Art For Rights. Rome, Italy. (photo © Fabio Petani)

“Fabio Petani is an artist who has always fought for this cause, and in this wall he has decided to talk about it by representing a glacier that is melting and transforming into its opposite: a desert,” organizers say on their Instagram page.

“The disappearance of glaciers and desertification is an ever closer reality if we don’t change something.”

Fabio Petani. Ozone & Carnegiea Gigantea. Street Art For Rights. Rome, Italy. (photo © Fabio Petani)
Fabio Petani. Ozone & Carnegiea Gigantea. Street Art For Rights. Rome, Italy. (photo © Fabio Petani)
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