Street art is the art that takes place in public places. Always present on the city walls, since the 70s with American graffiti and then in the 80s with artists like Keith Haring, street art has entered our imagination and it was brought from the street into the art galleries of New York.<\/p>\n
Murals and graffiti are able to transform the appearance of cities and today they are conceived as true site-specific works of art<\/strong> capable of revitalizing the urban territory.<\/strong><\/p>\n Nico Skolp<\/strong><\/a>, Nicol\u00f2 Loprieno,\u00a0is a street artist and designer made in Apulia.<\/strong> If you are familiar with Instagram, you have certainly seen the colorful basketball court he made in Matera. “Let’s Play Culture” is an urban work of art Nico Skolp created in collaboration with the German artist Quapos. It was opened last January. It’s much more than just a basketball court, it is an urban work of art that transforms, thanks to shapes and colors, a popular area a few steps from the heart of Matera,<\/strong>\u00a0it brings beauty, used the language of design to communicate with sports language.<\/p>\n More and more often art meets sport on a basketball court.<\/strong> Here you can find the blog post I wrote on the basketball court in Paris, the most famous on Instagram<\/a>, and here the initiative of the Project Backboard association which in the United States transforms old basketball courts into works of art thanks to the collaboration with various artists.<\/a><\/p>\nFigurative, geometric, colorful, murals today are the connecting element between art, design, and communication.<\/h3>\n