08/04/2024
Daniel Buren, Sosta colorata per Villa San Michele, lavoro in situ, 2024.
MITICO is Belmond’s annual artistic series with Galleria Continua. This year, for the first time, it focuses on a single artist: Daniel Buren, representative of analytical painting and conceptual art.
For SALON, author Franziska Herrmann travelled to Villa San Michele, a 15th century former monastery located in the Fiesole Hills overlooking Florence.
Here, inspired by a Renaissance Masterpiece, whose façade is attributed to the school of Michelangelo, Buren found the perfect location for his work: “Sosta colorata per Villa San Michele, lavoro in situ”. The glass roof of the hotel bar, formerly a small cloister, becomes Buren’s canvas. It allows the architecture of the hotel to be experienced in a new light, as coloured reflections cover the room with the movements of the sun ☀️
The artwork will be on display for guests and visitors alike from 3 April 2024 to 30 September 2024.
The global series entitled: „Haltes Colorées”, meaning ‘colourful halt’ launched at Mount Nelson, a Belmond Hotel in Cape Town and will be followed by further commissions at Belmond’s properties in Cape Town, Rio de Janeiro, Tuscany and Mallorca.