Street Art Passion for Urban Regeneration

CORINA NANI

Designer and Assistant Professor (PhD) @ the Art & Design Faculty of the Western University
Timisoara with a STRONG PASSION for Street Art
2011
The beginnings: after the first FISART (focused on Graffiti) in 2011 I did my first Mural
2012
I dedicated my second Mural during FISART 2012 to “Vivaldi s Four Seasons” on the
walls of the summer garden of the - Timisoara Philharmonic.
The same year I did some murals as a parent contribution to the German School of
Timisoara (Nikolaus Lenau) where my kids are learning.
 2013
In 2013 I participated to a moving street art work on a public tramway belonging to
FISART together with the artists Deco (Brazil), IRLO and Karm (Romania)
The same year I did a mural in the traditional mining town of Anina, which used to be
the main resource of energy of the Austrian-Hungarian Empire.
2014
 During FISART 2014 I did some murals along the Bega Channel which has been
constructed by the Austrians in the 18th Century and made possible the economic
development of Banat and Timisoara.
During the same year I did a Mural together with the Romanian artist Karm on the former
Austrian Indoor Horse Riding arena of the Timisoara Fortress, which is hosting the national
Theater.
Certificate of excellence in Urban Regeneration – granted by the Romanian National Urban
Planners Association
2015
During FISART 2015 I did the Murals “Big Nudes by Design” on the Rooftop of the PASMATEX
textile factory downtown of Timisoara.
Also during FISART 2015 at PASMATEX I did the so called “Children” Mural painted mainly on
the windows of the indoor stair case.
Last but not least during FISART 2015 I created a cartoon like work on an unpleasant looking
garage doors also at PASMATEX.
During 2015 I obtained “The Prize for Art in Public Space” granted by the National Visual Artists
Association of Romania (UAP) – in the framework of the National Museum of Contemporary Arts
Bucharest (MNAC).
2016
During FISART 2016 I created two huge painted „carpets” on a walking area downtown
Timisoara.
During FISART 2016 I collaborated with the Spanish artist Joan Tarrago in creating some very
special Murals as shown on this page.
During FISART 2016 I created a Mural dedicated to the Jugendstil architecture, used at the end
of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century in Timisoara.
In collaboration with the German photographer and Model Laura von S, the Swiss Photographer
Urs Bachmann, the German photographers Gerd Hannemann and Sergio Morariu I did body
paint the model Laura von S and integrated her visually in my „Big Nudes by Design” mural
created during FISART 2015 on he PASMATEX Rooftop.
At the “Amphora” restaurant downtown Timisoara I created a graphic signature together with
the participant artists.
 2017
During FISART 2017 I created at the Water supply Plant Nr. 1 of Timisoara a Mural dedicated to
the Baroc Architectural heritage of Timisoara. The building used for this mural was
commissioned in 1914 and the architect who designed it was the same Laszlo Szekely who de-
signed the most of the monumental Jugendstil buildings of the Timisoara center.
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