Viene e va

Viene e va is the installation by Liliana Moro that won the 7th edition of “Premio ArteGiovane – Torino incontra l'arte. Una porta per Torino” – conceived for the Iveco roundabout in Corso Giulio Cesare, Turin in 2005. The roundabout - that already presented two commas made of stone chippings on the grass – would host two groups of street lamps with a fixed light, one yellow and one white, with two street lamps with intermittent light at the centre, representing two lighthouses, whose function is to serve as a navigational aid for the sailors.

The lanterns would be impressive, 11 meters high and made up of a steel pole surmounted by a plastic globe of 80 cm diameter. A maquette of the project – which has gone lost – showed a comparison between the height of the street lamps and the cars on the road.  The project received a cash prize as winner of the competition, but the installation – whose realization would have needed an amount € 70.000 (of which 30.000 coming from private sponsors) – was never realised due to logistic and organizational problems.

Moro will choose the same theme of the street lamp for Stella Polare 2011, for the Arte in Memoria exhibition at the Synagogue of Ostia Antica, presenting an installation in which a street lamp with a yellow light is turned on day and night, and visible from a long distance.

Liliana Moro, Stella Polare, 2011, iron tube cm 600, globe, yellow bulb, Synagogue of Ostia Antica.

In 2002 Debora Hirsch also participated to the 6th edition of the competition with the project Il fiore e la pietra, also attended by Eva Marisaldi with 18.20 - Project for Piazzale Caio Mario and Luca Vitone with Una tigre per Torino , as documented on MoRE Museum.