Title:
Turin (Porta Sud) Competition
Date:
2003
Artist:
John Aldus / Bruce Williams   
Location:
Turin, Italy. 
Background:
As part of a study into the reorganization of the city and its infastructure systems the city wished  to define a series of places to locate new city doors or gateways and particularly to represent the sites of the role of “new doors” of the city. Part of this process involved a competition for a new public artwork at the ‘Porta Sud’ or south door.
Commission:
CBAT commissioned two artists to create proposals for the competition, Bruce Williamson and John Aldus. Their concepts both looked at the gyratory system central to the ‘Porta Sud’ and created integrated works that referenced the city’s 3 rivers. The theme was water which the artists cleverly combined with a reference to the city’s name.