“I was very keen. A tribute to the father of dissemination for us lovers of scientific culture». Words of Fiodor Verzola, young councilor of the municipality of Nichelino, who pays homage to “a great Turinese of culture” with a mural painted on an entire side facade of a two-storey building in Via Torino.
Of great impact, also because it appears on one of the main streets from Nichelino towards Turin, once completed it will be an enormous image of the great journalist and publicist of science, born in 1928 and who died that year. The work is not yet finished, although yesterday evening the first part was completed: «We still have to finish it: when it is finished we want to organize an event on December 22nd, Piero Angela’s birthday».
The mural is the work of a team of artists that we hired specifically. This by the great Piero Angela is an artistic work that is part of the street art project that we have been starting in Nichelino for some time in order to re-evaluate these real works of art and above all to send messages. Piero Angela is the first in a series of personalities from the world of culture and science to be portrayed on the walls of our city. There will be others that we will not reveal for now ». That the first face is that of Piero Angela is no coincidence: “When we discussed the initiative with Mayor Giampiero Tolardo – adds Verzola, who is councilor for productive activities, commerce, youth politics and civil protection – we immediately thought of Peter Angela . We all shared the idea. Even for my generation, Superquark was a true, unmissable icon of television».