Confluenze
Confluenze is a project by Gummy Gue created for the NUoVO sports and cultural center in the city of Cuneo.
The project was conceived and implemented as part of the redevelopment of the sports and cultural center in the former Nuvolari area, which has always been a point of attraction for the city.
At the center of the green space in via Parco della Gioventù, a regular play area has come to life which is transformed into a sort of “video game” platform, colourful, kaleidoscopic and immersive for sporting activities, but also a concert area and youth aggregation site.
A playground that becomes a center of attraction, designed in continuity with the surrounding area and the morphology of the place. The presence of blue colours in the lateral bands is combined with the centrality of cuneiform cutouts, with abstract suggestions that can suggest a strip of land surrounded by waterways.
In the meeting between sport, art and music, an important space for the city of Cuneo is redeveloped, where the natural confluences of the rivers become synonymous with union for different expressive fields. The initiative is organized and promoted by the Art.ur Association,
Project details
Design: Gummy Gue
Project Location: via Parco della Gioventù, Cuneo, Italy
Typology: Playground
Design year: 2023
Year Built: 2023
Curatorial consultancy: Andrea Lerda
Construction with the support of: Cuneo Municipality, Gruppo Giovani Imprenditori Confindustria Cuneo
Design with the support of: Parco Fluviale Gesso e Stura, Piemont Region, Fondazione CRC, Fondazione CRT
Photo credits: © Ugo Galassi
Gummy Gue
Gummy Gue (Marco Mangione) is an artist who works mainly in the public space. Born in Catania in 1986, he knows the graffiti writing environment in the early 2000s, investigating and experimenting with the expressive possibilities that will bring him to contemporary urban art. His research focuses on a system of formal codes that follows a certain logic, a language of signs that has his rules and reference channels. A personal grammar that expresses itself in a suspended vision, to suggest possible universes through figuration which borders with abstraction, a research started with iconic characters that have accompanied the artist from the beginning of his path. The breakdown of the elements is the result of a search to the synthesis that tends to exhibit positive vibes to the representation of a flexible space, an open dialogue with the architecture and the environment. Sports facilities and recreational areas are urban spaces where experiment the movement and the crossing of a usable space, to obtain a variable vision that regenerates continuously, as in a virtual simulation lived in real space.