"With his newly completed intervention, artist Anish Kapoor introduces to the station two distinct points of entry, each designed as sculptural thresholds into Naples' metro network. The university entrance, formed from weathering steel, swells from the plaza in a way that is 'archetypal, raw and labial.' The artist's team explains: ' It appears to offer a descent into the underworld.'"
"The Traiano entrance presents a contrasting language. Here, a tubular opening of smooth steel is precise and brushed. The team continues: ' As in so much of Kapoor's work, interior space is turned inside out, he reverses upwards and downwards in a sculptural work that is not an object in the landscape, but rather is joined, rooted and part of the landscape.'"
Anish Kapoor conceived a sculptural steel monolith marking the entrance to Monte Sant'Angelo subway station in Naples, scheduled to open September 11, 2025. The intervention integrates sculpture and architecture as part of Traiano district regeneration. Two sculptural entrances provide contrasting thresholds: a weathering-steel university entrance that swells from the plaza and evokes an archetypal descent into the underworld, and a Traiano entrance of precise, brushed tubular steel that inverts interior and exterior space and roots into the landscape. Kapoor collaborated with Jan Kaplický and Amanda Levete of Future Systems to maintain raw continuity and transform infrastructure into public art defining urban movement.
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