Splendide Hotel, 2015 (background)
Neon sign, installation
The term Splendide Hotel was adapted from a line by poet Arthur Rimbaud. Gonzalez-Foerster created a complex, intuitive web of literary, cultural, musical, and historical associations around books, objects, discoveries and their authors and readers, around the year 1887.
K.2066, 2008–16 (detail)
40 metal bunk beds, 100 science fiction books, music (by the composers Arto Lindsay and Kassin), enlarged reproductions of 6 sculptures (by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Claes Oldenburg, Katharina Fritsch, Joel Shapiro, Johannes Brus), LED screen showing The Last Film (color, no sound, 30', production: Camera Lucida Productions/Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster), curtain made of PVC-strips (Greenred, 2012–16)
Photo © Andrea Rossetti