Art Is Everywhere: How to Really Look at Things

In 2005 there was as a street performance in Florence that featured a white canvas with a light grey sentence reading, “Art is Everywhere”, temporarily exhibited on the streets. The aim of the project was to create a temporary visual emptiness: a necessary condition for opening people’s eyes so that they could see the interesting layers of scratches, marks, old posters and parts of the city that normally remain unnoticed by many.
Within a few years, it had become a 2 day workshop, where part...