After Bergamo, Ghent (Belgium), Istanbul (Turkey), Moscow (Russia), Plovdiv (Bulgaria), the Italian artist Alberto Garutti inaugurates Ai Nati Oggi in Rome today. Those born today are truly the babies who come to life in real time at the Maternity Department of the Policlinico Agostino Gemelli.
In the work Ai nati oggi the streetlights of a given place in the city, Piazza del Popolo, get brighter every time a child is born. The maternity ward in the hospital is equipped with a button that can be pushed by the staff at each new birth; the button makes the streetlight system gradually increase the intensity of the light, a surge that then subsides back to normal in about thirty seconds.
A public work of art that touches the most intimate moment of a human being.