Artist Saype’s Worldwide Symbolic Human Chain extends to Turin, 2020

French-Swiss artist Saype’s worldwide ‘Beyond walls Project’ extends his symbolic human chain to Turin.

In a polarizing world, the artist chooses to symbolically create the largest human chain in the world to invite us to benevolence and to live together: the Beyond Walls project. A combination of pairs of intertwined hands, painted on the ground across the world, slide from city to city, to symbolize union, mutual aid and common effort beyond the walls.

​The symbolic human chain launched in the city of love, Paris and then travelled to Engolasters in Andorra. Saype then stepped into Geneva, Switzerland. Step 4 took the human chain to Berlin, step 5 to Ouagadougou, and step 6 to Yamoussoukro.

  • French-Swiss artist Saype works on a collection of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Monday September 28, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy. (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype works on a collection of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Monday September 28, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy. (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype works on a collection of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Sunday September 27, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy. (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype works on a collection of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Saturday September 26, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy. (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype walks in the street with his paint gun after completing two giant biodegradable landart paintings Thursday September 1, 2020 across the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)

Saype chose Turin as the 7th step of his world Beyond Walls project and paints two giant biodegradable landart paintings across the Palatine Gate with an overall area of 6’400 square meters, the fresco was created using biodegradable pigments made out of charcoal, chalk, water and milk proteins.

  • A general view shows two giant biodegradable landart paintings by French-Swiss artist Saype across the Palatine Gate on Monday September 28, 2020 in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • A general view shows two giant biodegradable landart paintings by French-Swiss artist Saype across the Palatine Gate on Monday September 28, 2020 in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • A general view shows two giant biodegradable landart paintings by French-Swiss artist Saype across the Palatine Gate on Monday September 28, 2020 in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • A general view shows two giant biodegradable landart paintings by French-Swiss artist Saype across the Palatine Gate on Monday September 28, 2020 in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype poses in one of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Tuesday September 29, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype poses in one of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Tuesday September 29, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype and Francesca Lavazza, board member Lavazza group, partner of the project, pose in one of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Tuesday September 29, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • French-Swiss artist Saype poses in one of two giant biodegradable landart paintings Tuesday September 29, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)
  • A general view shows two giant biodegradable landart paintings by French-Swiss artist Saype across the Palatine Gate on Tuesday September 29, 2020 in Turin, Italy.
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)

After having linked Europe and Africa, from Paris to Yamoussoukro, the giant hands of the universal chain cross the Porta Palatina, the glorious vestige of Eternal Roma erected in the centre of the Risorgimento of Italy. Reaching out to their ancestors, children of the present open a breach in the wall of time. If human fraternity plays with borders, it must also succeed in breaking through the ancient walls that past generations have erected between them and which still fracture societies today, in order to build, hand in hand, the universal city of the future.

Lavazza Group has chosen to mark a season of collective reopening with a symbol of brotherhood and optimism expressed through Beyond Walls, the monumental work by Saype that depicts two outstretched arms clasped together. It is a journey of solidarity and values that Lavazza embarked on with the Good Morning Humanity campaign and is perfectly embodied by the art of Saype, exemplifying the ever-closer relationship between the visual arts and sustainability.

  • French-Swiss artist Saype and Francesca Lavazza, board member Lavazza group, partner of the project, pose making a symbolic handshake next to two giant biodegradable landart paintings Tuesday September 29, 2020 in front of the Palatine Gate in Turin, Italy. Hand washing and covid measures taken
    (Valentin Flauraud for Saype)

Photo Credit Valentin Flauraud for Saype

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