Just as in nature all elements coexist in ideal (natural) balance, inside Get Hotel the artworks function in harmony with the surroundings, but generate points of interest like flowers in a forest. Each artwork on display is the result of an extensive process of selecting artists and producing works specifically designed for the space they occupy.
Art is a space designed for conscious reflection, with messages that evoke fundamental values, calling us to spiritual awakening in search of a total connection with the surrounding nature. All the works respond to the same call: to be in the present what we want for the future. They remind us every day that what is essential is the force that moves us, and that does not change over time.
Curator Georgina Valdez Cristofani
Notebook from the pine forest - Claudia Santanera.
When we enter the hotel's nest, we are greeted by Cuaderno del bosque de pinos (Notebook of the Pine Forest), a large installation by artist Claudia Santanera. The history of this piece begins thousands of years ago, when the indigenous inhabitants of the Cordoba mountains began harvesting and weaving the caranday palm. It is a weaving technique that has remained almost unchanged throughout this time, serving noble purposes such as food and shelter. The spiral pattern of the design shaped by the hands of the artisans becomes volumetric, giving form to objects of organic and sacred geometry. Claudia Santanera revisits this ancestral knowledge and brings it into the present in her work. The artist highlights a technique that narrates its time in material memory.
Mechanics, poetics - Juan José Cambre
On the wall of the staircase leading to the second floor of the nest, we find three paintings, each representing the fundamental compositional elements of the Molvento landscape: mountain, lake, and sky. The pieces, by Argentine master Juan José Cambre, are part of a series of paintings that can be found throughout the hotel. The series, entitled Mecánica, poética (Mechanics, Poetry), which the artist painted in his studio in Los Cocos, Córdoba, is constructed from a combination of two tones, one expressed with vertical brushstrokes and the other with horizontal brushstrokes, just as the warp and weft constitute the fabric that supports it. The title alludes to the idea of repetition as a form of meditation, in which a final plane is achieved through repeated and sustained action, and this is the best way to achieve mastery in something: time and patience. The paintings are only backgrounds; there are no figures expressed in them. Extreme minimalism invites emptiness, the emotional experience of color. They are green because it is the predominant color in nature. If we view the complete series of 14 paintings as a single work, we see a deconstructed landscape, like a scientist separating samples to study the natural environment in his laboratory. A colorist with more than 50 years of experience, the master Cambre presents this series of paintings as a manifesto of his study on the construction of the color green.
Bio-sculptures - Sheila O'Connor
Sculptures by bio-artist Sheila O'Connor can be found in both public and private spaces throughout the hotel. Sheila specializes in biomaterials, which are contemporary materials in the development stage whose main characteristic is the use of renewable energies and their zero impact on the planet's carbon footprint. The organic geometric shapes are composed of material collected from the surrounding forest, such as pine needles and eucalyptus leaves, which are mixed with eggshells, charcoal, or coffee grounds, all of which are organic waste products from the restaurant. The lesson of these pieces is the beauty that is hidden in all things, where what is trash to some is treasure to others. In nature, this is the principle of circular energy, where everything has an essential place and role, which, however small it may seem, is fundamental to the functioning of an ecosystem. All energy is transformed, and Sheila's sculptures are an example of how the artist, as an alchemist and a medium channeling human energies, plays an essential social role in nourishing our spirit and making us reflect on the essence and real importance of things.
Capturing a landscape – Cassiopeia
While enjoying a coffee or sampling some of the culinary offerings at the hotel restaurant, you will also experience the connection to the land and the hands of local artisans in the pottery pieces by the Casiopea duo. Sol Carranza Sieber and Luciano Gimenez developed a research project on local clays, which served as the basis for their tableware line. The tones, textures, and compositions are based on observations of the minerals that make up the soil of Molvento. The respectful extraction of materials for the creation of the utensils speaks to us of a total connection with the environment, of being one with the landscape, and of promoting that bond in the most noble of activities of love for our bodies: nutrition.
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