Space Invaders in Rome: the mystery of the Vatican's Space Invader mosaic
posted: Tuesday 07 July 2009 by Alison in: Rome Art/design
This curious mosaic has been spotted by one of our colleagues from 06blog, while on the queue to enter the Vatican Museum. The little tile decoration looks like something out of Space Invaders, sitting inconspicuously on the side of a building in Viale Vaticano.
It’s a bit of a mystery really, but looks like it could come from the Invader street artist who has conquered the streets of the world’s cities since 1998. First appearing in Paris, the alien mosaics have become an alternative sight for tourists. You can even track their appearance around the world on the updated map and see the cult Space Invaders gallery on Flickr.
The only problem is, no existence of the Space Invader mosaic has been listed for Rome. Nothing has yet appeared on the internet to suggest that Rome has its own little invader, although they have appeared everywhere from Perth, in Australia, to Mombasa, Manchester, New York, Bilbao and Katmandu (etc etc).
Could this be a copy cat version? Did the artist forget about “that night in Rome on the Viale Vaticano”…? If anyone has any information on Rome’s space invader mosaic, get in touch, we’d be happy to have the mystery solved. Eat your heart out, Dan Brown!
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leila-in-rome
07 Jul 2010 - 16:01 - #1hey!
una brutta copia…
INVADER sta arrivando a roma per il progetto Living Layers, coordinato dal MACRO e WUNDERKAMMERN! finalmente un grande street artist anche in Italia!
qualche link interessante:
http://www.macro.roma.museum/
http://www.wunderkammern.net/
se trovate delle invasioni fatemi sapere!
baci
leila
donnie_acrosstheuniverse
09 Jul 2010 - 01:09 - #2hey leila,
thanks for the news about the Living Layers project. I didnt know about Wunderkammern, it seems like a very altenative place not presenting the ‘usual’ art!
looking forward to the invasion! also glad that MACRO is giving the deserved attention to street/urban/public art!
hope to meet you around in rome!
cheers
donnie
noranora
09 Jul 2010 - 18:17 - #3si, confermo quanto ha detto leila, Invader sta arrivando a roma per invaderla, finalmente!
è un’occasione che Roma non può perdere, grazie a Wunderkammern e al MACRO per questa bella iniziativa!
a ottobre la mostra degli alias nella sede dell’Associazione wunderkammern.
take a look at
www.wunderkammern.net
Bigmolla
29 Jul 2010 - 13:02 - #4Ecco la mappa degli invaders a Roma:
http://maps.google.it/maps/ms?msa=0&msid=103444936303690633242.00048bf5832a3037f1d8a&ct=docsearch&cd=2&cad=docsearch,cid:8489334303320576570
Al momento 37 invaders catalogati … and counting
ciao
Bigmolla