The Venue
Arte Metro Roma was supported by the Municipality of Rome and the public transport company Atac; the project was conceived and curated by Piero Dorazio, with the artistic coordination of Paolo D’Orazio. The initiative was launched in 1996, and involved over 70 internationally renowned artists in realizing large-scale mosaic works for the stations of Line A and B of underground of Rome. The sketches of the works entered the collection of Galleria d’Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale. The aim of the project was to create a diffused museum of contemporary art and enhance the spaces of the underground, in occasion of the redevelopment of the stations.