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Twenty-four metres high, a hundred and ten in perimeter — the largest work of Neve's early career.

Neve per Syndial is a mural created by artist Neve on August 10, 2010 on the former phosphorus oven in Crotone, for ENI Syndial, curated by POCO, 24 m height × 110 m perimeter.

In August 2010, Neve transformed the exterior of a decommissioned industrial phosphorus oven in Crotone — a cylindrical structure standing 24 metres tall with a 110-metre perimeter — into one of the largest murals of his career, commissioned by Eni Syndial as part of their environmental communication campaign, curated by POCO. On the curved white surface of the former Eni plant, Neve painted two young girls in white lab coats, each holding a roller, painting green. Around them: butterflies, ladybirds, plants — nature returning, brush stroke by brush stroke, to an industrial landscape that had forgotten it. The image is both literal and symbolic: the act of painting as an act of restoration, of reclamation, of giving back colour and life to a place defined by extraction and industry. The scale of the work — visible for kilometres across the flat Calabrian coastline — gave the message an almost monumental force.