COLOUR ME WILD
26 Sep 2017
Sure to stand out from any angle, this custom-designed skate park in Italy is a dynamic colour composition that sits somewhere between art and park and provides a new sensory experience for riders.
Sicilian artist Marco Mangione, known as Gue, has transformed Darsena Popup’s Ravenna skate park into a dynamic, colour composition as part of Subsidenze, an annual event dedicated to public art in the city of Ravenna, north Italy.
Darsena Popup, a sports complex at the edge of the river, is close to Ravenna’s historical centre. In an effort to refurbish the urban area, the installation creates a clever synthesis between the artwork and its environment. 
Gue’s abstract composition of colours covers the entire park floor of the Darsena Popup Skatepark — adding a sensory dimension to the overall experience. The artist’s use of curvilinear lines mimics the moment of the skaters, and also highlight the features on the park’s surface — “offering an immediate ability to read volumes.” 
The skatepark, the only one in Ravenna, was completed in 2003. It offers users 440sqm of smooth surface area, “with some good ledges and a steep bathtub plus extension in the centre,” according to skateboard.com.au
This project continues Gue’s experimentation with colour, having also completed an earlier work, a basketball court for Carlo Carra Park in Alessandria, Italy.
