The hotel is a three-storey building: Mediterranean style, white-washed façade, elegant hall, 40 rooms opening up onto wide corridors, where wall stones shaped by time give way to natural sculptures; 100 beds, large terraces full of flowers overlooking the sea.
The Twenty art rooms was realized by the international artists Danielle Mitterand , Agnese Purgatorio, Antonio Presti, Cristina Bertelli (La Stanza dei Portatori d’Acqua), Mario Ceroli (La Bocca della Verità), Fabrizio Plessi (La stanza del Mare Negato), Mauro Staccioli (Trinacria), Renato Curcio (Sogni tra Segni), Maria Lai (Su Barca di Carta m'Imbarco), Raoul Ruiz (La Torre di Sigismondo), Paolo Icaro (Il Nido), Luigi Mainolfi (La Stanza della Terra e del Fuoco), Michele Canzoneri (Linea d'Ombra), Hidetoshi Nagasawa (Mistero per la Luna), Sislej Xhafa (Il Bagno Turco), Vincenzo Consolo, Umberto Leone e Ute Pyka (Lunaria – La Stanza della Luna). Each artist reconstructed the space and the furnishings of a room, realizing a real artistic work.
The standard rooms that are very spacious with balconies facing the sea of Castel di Tusa, instead, represent real little museum with special contemporary art collections.
This work is a tribute to ideological utopia. The idea was conceived by Renato Curcio and Agostino Ferrari. Protagonists is graphic expression, from rock paintings to modern writing. Man's knowledge is impaired by communicative, religious, ideological codes: such codes are inscribed on an imaginary sheet of paper enveloping the whole room. Sogni tra i segni symbolises isolation, which can be overcome only by art and its irrepressible urge of freedom. Accordingly, the artist Agostino Ferrari created the great web over the bed. Real freedom begins and ends with codification, that is why the bath is abrickwork resembling a cave,a pure, primordial place the artist firmly believes in. Sogni tra segni Curcio, Ferrari
"I imagine the visitor stepping into the Atelier, going to the reception desk, getting to the room with his/her key and locking himself/herself in". Mistero per la Luna (1991) Hidetochi Nagasawa
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