With Blu Art – The Colors of the Air, fifteen tactical urbanism interventions across the districts of Rome by Jungle have turned just as many squares and streets into surfaces to be breathed as well as crossed. Behind every color, behind every geometric line, there is a gesture of care for public space and for those who inhabit it.
The participating artists – Marco Oggian, ScombinAnto, Serena Gianoli, GeometricBang and Elisabetta Vedovato – brought to Rome’s various districts a powerful visual language made of simple shapes and saturated colors, able to dialogue with the urban fabric without losing the immediacy of a message: air quality is a common good.
Each interpreted the theme through their own poetics. In Oggian’s patterns, geometry becomes irony and silent protest; in ScombinAnto’s works, the energy of play and movement emerges; Serena Gianoli works with an almost natural sense of balance, while GeometricBang turns the surface into a pulsating ecosystem, populated by figures that seem to breathe. Elisabetta Vedovato, on the other hand, brings her graphic sensitivity to an urban scale, translating the delicacy of drawing into a message with collective impact.
The works arise from a shared color palette, inspired by the air quality map: blues, greens, and oranges blend into fields that not only color the city, but also help purify it, thanks to photocatalytic paints capable of neutralizing pollutants such as nitrogen dioxide and fine particulate matter. Every square meter painted works like a small tree, turning creativity into a concrete ecological gesture.
In this meeting between art and sustainability lies Jungle’s entire vision, which through tactical urbanism shows how aesthetic design can become political and environmental action. The fifteen works, scattered across Rome’s districts from Ponte Milvio to Torre Angela, create a distributed route where the city breathes through color.
“Blu Art – The Colors of the Air” is not just an aesthetic project: it is an invitation to imagine urban space as a living organism, in which art has the power to heal and regenerate.
