“To make a work of art out of demolition, shedding light on a hidden story that may reveal unattended relations. Renovation is an idea that withholds memory”. This is the concept of the event called Crash which will take place on Friday, November, 15 at Hotel Locarno in Rome.
Pellegrini Mocellin: Crash
The renovation of the historic Hotel Locarno in Rome offered the opportunity to artists Nicola Pellegrini and Ottonella Mocellin of creating a site-specific installation, suspended between the overwhelming desire to break everything and the will to preserve fragments of stories, sounds and charm.
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- 19 November 2013
- Rome
The idea of the Crash artistic installation by Nicola Pellegrini and Ottonella Mocellin was born thanks to an intuition shared by the hotel owners, Maria Teresa Celli and Caterina Valente. What better occasion than the restlyling of Hotel Locarno to host a large artistic event?
The artists, Nicola Pellegrini and Ottonella Mocellin, explain their installation at Hotel Locarno: “Between public and private, movement and idleness, a place that is not a place, a hotel is where a person lives differently than they would at their own houses. Some hotels may become homes for some people but certain hotels like Hotel Locarno, with it’s uniquely decorated rooms, it’s history and it’s cozy atmosphere is much more of a home than any other hotel. With the double vision of who is used to observing the world from another point of view, we have decided to find these traces and make them resurface so everyone can see them.”
Their site-specific installation has been projected with the goal to reveal the unstable balance between the overwhelming desire to break everything in order to create something new and the will to preserve a memory: fragments of stories, sounds and charm that composes a narration which is made of many voices, some which are broken down but flowing at the same time.
For decades Hotel Locarno is renown for being a reference point for the world of art, cinema and literature. Call it a “cultural container”, the perfect setting in which the atmosphere is aligned with the artistic vocation and the passion for art that runs deep in the owners veins. Hotel Locarno is one the hotspots of the cultural scene in Rome, a place where intellectuals search understatement and elegance. Born in 1925, Hotel Locarno was inaugurated by the original Swiss owners who entrusted the famous cartoon artist Anselmo Ballester for the advertising posters for the opening.
until November, 24 2013
Ottonella Mocellin and Nicola Pellegrini: Crash
Hotel Locarno
via della Penna 22, Rome