ROUNDABOUT

Roundabout is a work by Moio&Sivelli for Napoliest Project (www.napoliest.it); it was born to transform a very specific urban place: a rotunda in Ponticelli, a district worth to north suburbs of Naples. Designed to be a fountain, even if it doesn’t work since long time, the rotunda works as a traffic island and could be easily classified as one of the various examples of urban furniture without any end. It does not solve the real problems of one of the more risky pieces of the town: around it, it is easy to see drivers “under attack of nerves”. Through a playful and ironic imagery, i.e. the inner mark of their work, the artists Moio&Sivelli capture and focus the routine around the traffic island and verse it into a dizzy rhythm, where sounds, lights and colours remind a luna-park roundabout.