Daily News | Philly’s public sculptures are getting their annual baths starting this week
Zach Tatti spent his Memorial Day the usual way, for him at least: Six feet up on a ladder, getting up close and personal with some of Philadelphia’s most prominent pieces of public art.
“It’s the start of the tourist season and we want all the monuments in tip-top shape,” Tatti said as he took a break from working on Spanning the Continent, part of the Ellen Phillips Samuel Memorial along Kelly Drive near the Girard Avenue bridge. Location and conditions vary what’s required: Statues under trees, for instance, tend to accumulate more dirt, while sculptures near roadways, like Kelly Drive, are more susceptible to black mold.
Art conservation runs in his family. His grandfather, Alexander Tatti, was a foundryman in New York City, casting molds for sculptors. Gradually, Alexander and his son, Steve, noticed that the artists they worked with had little interest in restoring or repairing their pieces. They preferred, Tatti said, to move on to new works.
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