The work, an idiosyncratic take on the Eternal City’s defining moments, was inaugurated in April 2016 and has proved a popular free attraction for visitors to the Italian capital. “Some graffiti artists do great work. I’m less interested in those who simply leave their initials on the wall,” Kentridge told Italian daily La Repubblica. “I know there are many people in Rome to whom this work is dear… out of respect for them, I hope the city authorities will clean up the graffiti,” he said. In an interview last year, Kentridge described it as a meditation on the flawed nature of memory with both heroic and shameful episodes from the city’s history on show.

Source: Daily News Egypt April 01, 2017 12:22 UTC