In Naples, the new metro station signed by the artist Anish Kapoor opens in Naples (and will take you to Dante’s Hell)

Not only the now famous line 1, already known all over the world for Art stations Curated by Achille Bonito Oliva: from today Naples boasts another piece of its amazing underground urban art.

In fact, (after years of work …) the Monte Sant’Angelo stop of Line 7 of the Metro was inaugurated, which will also connect Cumana and Circumflegrea, passing through the university center of Monte Sant’Angelo.

An extraordinary project that bears the signature of Anish Kapoor (with the London study al_a by Amanda Levete), Anglo-Indian artist also author of Cloud Gate And Butcheredin a precise place: a popular, difficult neighborhood, the Trajan’s Rione, in which the beauty of a work of art of this dimensions becomes a symbol of urban and cultural regeneration.

What today appears as a great novelty in reality has its roots in a past but recent past. The idea was born in 2002, the works started in 2008 but soon endured in an intricate bureaucratic dispute. Only between 2016 and 2017 did the construction site found impetus, giving “the mouth” shape, the huge corten steel sculpture that marks the entrance of the Monte Sant’Angelo station.

Designed as a “symbolic passage towards the unknown”, this structure with soft and archaic lines dialogue with the surrounding landscape and with the literary memory, recalling the Dante descent in the underworld.

The Monte Sant’Angelo station is not limited to hosting the monumental work of Anish Kapoor, but amplifies its language.

Those who are the most expensive themes to the artist – the myth, the body and the void – become an integral part of the experience of those who travel in these places. University access, in corten steel with a raw surface, emerges from the ground like a primordial mass that swallows space, transforming the entry into a passage towards an underground “elsewhere” rather than in a simple urban passage. The entrance from the Trajan side, on the other hand, overturns perception: a tubular and smooth, clear and bright structure, which offers itself as a counterpoint and welcoming threshold.

A place that is not only station, but brings entry to a trip suspended between newspaper and imaginary, where Naples once again proves to be able to transform mobility into art and art into collective experience.

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