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The Administration has transformed the simple and unattractive underground of Naples in fascinating places where citizens can meet contemporary art while public service. The Interior of the line 1 and the line 6 are home to around 200 works by 100 contemporary artists, turning every subway station in an exhibition opened. A museo distribuito sull'intera area urbana che allows al territorio di acquistare a valore nuovo e fama internazionale.
Toledo stopped – classified more beautiful resort in Europe by the British newspaper The Daily Telegraph -, It is properly “snapped up” by the nearby Mediterranean : down in the bowels of the Earth, surrounded by blue mosaic squares, as at the bottom of a swimming pool, that a skylight connects to the outside world.
The Toledo station
Then, These are the “Waves” the Catalan Oscar Tusquets Blanca, which pick us at the foot of the escalator, before being “rocked” by the work of Robert Wilson, “By the sea… you and me”, consists of panels inlaid with led bulbs, that are raised on our passage. The “Art stations”, which accommodate not less than 200 works, fit into a comprehensive plan planning and development of public transport in Naples, known for its Monster traffic jams. Pink fuchsia in a direction, yellow-green in the other, University station is the only one to be designed entirely by a single artist, Anglo-Egyptian designer Karim Rashid.
Università station
Pavement, walls, up the stairs leading to the exit, one decorated with the portrait of the poet Dante Alighieri, other than his muse Beatrice : everything must compete to make live the one traveller “sensory and aesthetic experience”. It is Achille Bonito Oliva, artistic coordinator with the company managing the metro, who has chosen for each of the artists, architects and designers, Italian and international. “It is a meeting between beauty and transport. We ask artists to create a work that fits into the station”, He explains to AFP. No question here of “decorate” simply space, but to create “a mandatory Museum”, in order to generate from the “familiarity” between travellers who do not go to the Museum and an art “that trip” and has “a social function”, Adds the art critic. In a city weighed down by unemployment and poverty, It is important to “put the art in people's lives”, Adds the Director of MetroNapoli, Giannegidio Silva.
Launched in the early 2000 and with a budget of a billion and a half euros, project, funded half by Europe, reached Monday a new dimension with the opening under the place Garibaldi of the sixteenth “the art station”, prior to its opening to the public in late December. French architect Dominique Perrault, creator of the Bibliothèque François-Mitterrand in Paris, who was responsible for its design. Thought to be a multimodal hub connecting the railway station, two existing metro lines and regional traffic, the Garibaldi station is expected to double the number of daily users, currently valued at approximately 200.000.
The Garibaldi station
Before a panel of officials, the Mayor of Naples, Luigi de Magistris, has leased to the microphone of the AFP “This underground contemporary art museum and our metro, one of the most beautiful in the world”. At the bottom of the escalators from the Garibaldi station, at a depth of 40 metres, under a canopy made of metal tubes, the aptly named “Stazione” Pistoletto, one of the pillars of the contemporary movement “Arte Povera”, presents a large mirror, pictures of passengers waiting, talk, look at.
Present at the inauguration, the artist's 80 years says that it matured for a long time a work “on the idea of the station” : “passenger/spectators entering the work, even a moment (….), It is a relationship between life and art, art and the train station”.
In here to 2015, open to turn stations “Duomo”, artwork of Massimiliano FuKSAs, and “Municipio”, directed by the Portuguese Alvaro Siza and Eduardo Souto de Moura, both winners of the Pritzke awardr, the NobEl Architects.
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