And what if your seaside stay was also an opportunity to surround yourself with the precious beauty of art?
We want to take on this fascinating challenge thanks to the collaboration with the Civiero Art Gallery.
The hotel thus becomes a small exhibition space for some internationally renowned artworks, which will be displayed in various areas throughout the year. Let yourself be inspired!
Aqua Aura
Artist Biography
The artist, after studying at the Art School, graduated in painting at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan with a study and a thesis entitled Anselm Kiefer. The other Baroque: a look at contemporary German expressionism. In 2009, after a long break taken precisely to distance himself from the frenetic doctrine of contemporary art, he returned to the concrete terrain of work and experimentation and was reborn in the guise of Aqua Aura.
During the years of his estrangement, traveling a lot, he enriched his baggage of images, coming to think about the infinite possibilities of art. Always in search of the Sublime in our era, he creates works that require a specific and direct involvement of the spectator.
His training path has continued over time, taking on various forms: living the great spaces of nature, or traveling and visiting art museums and scientific research laboratories, enriching his investigations in studies on astronomical physics, particle physics, biogenetics, philosophy and the psychology of perception. In particular, he establishes a relationship of collaboration and exchange with the AriSLA Foundation (Italian Research Foundation for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis), deepening the study on the genesis and development of scientific images. In recent years his language has moved mainly in the field of photography and digital art. He has exhibited in many institutions, galleries and museums at an international level, in cities such as Berlin, Istanbul, Barcelona, Maastricht, Helsinki and has participated in numerous art fairs in Italy and Europe.
The latest developments in his work have led him, in addition to the photographic medium, towards new languages, through the creation of short films, documentary films and video-art works, until arriving at installation and video-sculptural projects. These works, which at first glance may appear perfect from an aesthetic point of view, far from the reality of man are, instead, – after an in-depth analysis – what most internally belongs to him, to his being and his past. A continuous fusion and overlapping of the images accumulated in previous years give life to new landscapes and new worlds.
He participates in numerous conventions and conferences aimed at contemporary art and scientific research in general, as a speaker. He holds lessons on photography and contemporary art at private schools and foundations. After living and working between Milan and Akureyri (Iceland), he settled permanently in Milan in 2016.
Giorgio Laveri
Artist Biography
Giorgio Laveri was born in Savona.
Since 1972 he has dedicated himself professionally to Cinema and Theater. In 1975 he attended the Albisola ceramics school.
He collaborated with Salvatore Passarella and after the Chilean coup in 1973 he painted a series of Murales (Milan, Rome, Brescia, Vicenza).
In 1972 he had his first solo exhibition at the Galleria Vultur in Genoa and in the same year he founded the theater group “Rosacroce” with Nando Anerdi of the Derby in Milan.
After a series of collaborations with various Film Productions, he shot his first short film “Sleeping Beauty in the Woods” inserted in a satirical-theatrical show of which he was also the author.
In the 70s he wrote and directed 12 short films and a film “Scommessa di matrimonio”, which won the critics’ award at the “Cinema in casa” Festival in Rome.
After a series of events where Cinema and Theater are inextricably linked to ceramics (a stylistic feature that identifies him throughout his fifty-year career) “Cineceramica” was born in 1986 and was presented for the first time in the Aeolian Islands on the occasion of the celebrations for the 80th anniversary of Titanus Cinematografica which assumes its patronage together with the Region of Sicily.
“Photograms in ceramic” taken from great films make up this exhibition that is also presented in Trani, Albissola Marina and in Milan in the Galleria del Duomo on the occasion of the award ceremony of the winning films in Venice in 1988.
At the end of the 80s the first of the numerous experiments of Ceramics-Light-Movement was born. Among the many “Delitto in Cineceramica”, a theatrical piece presented in national preview at the Borgio Verezzi Theater Festival.
In 1993 he joined the French group Art Mobil with which he planned a series of events in Italy and France. He signs with Patrick Moya and Veronique Champollion the first part of the Manifesto of the Mediterranean Artistic Movement.
In 1996, with the Department of Mental Health of Genoa, he founded “Il Giardino del Mago” with which he produced a very large series of works related to theatrical, cinematographic and pictorial experimentation.
Since 1997 he has presented a series of events in public spaces and galleries and in 1998 he created two works for the merchandise of the exhibition “Omaggio a Picasso” at Palazzo Grassi in Venice.
The 2000s are the beginning of an intense artistic activity that in the last twenty years has produced exhibition events, theatrical plays and films (over 300 all over the world).
From a cinematographic point of view, he writes and directs four films produced by the Department of Mental Health of ASL 3 of Genoa (L’emarginazione dell’Individuo, 2002-2016) and a series of theatrical plays performed in Italy and France.
He was called to be part of the Jury of the 57th Ceramics Award of the MIC of Faenza in 2011 and exhibited his “Ceramic Gigantism” at prestigious Italian and international museums and public spaces.
He wrote the first part of the “Manifesto of Mediterranean Ceramics” with Veronique Champollion and Patrick Moya (which was then completed and presented in the Ceramics Museum of Albissola Marina with his French friend in 2005)
A gigantic monumental sculpture representing his Truka, a cult lipstick now known throughout the world, was placed in Seoul, South Korea.
It is in these years that the two major exhibitions for the 42 and 45 years of his career were presented (“Tessere”, 2014 and “Del Cinema, del Teatro, della Ceramica e di Giorgio Laveri, 2017) and that he was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Siena in 2016.
In Rome the national previews of his films “Metabar” and “Ho fatto un sogno” were presented and in 2016 he shot his feature film “Antes Sonaba” in Lima, Peru.
In the same year he began collaborating with the “Museums of Human Rights” of Argentina and Chile and wrote and directed two documentary theatre events on the dictatorships of South America with the original audiovisual material of the time granted by the Biblioteca Nacional of the Argentine Republic and the Chilean government.
In 2019 Laveri was awarded the recognition of Citizen with International Passport of Human Rights and the Santiago De Chile Culture Award at the Teatro La Pintana.
2022, the fiftieth year of his artistic career, will culminate with four anthological exhibitions: at the Museo del Design Ceramico in Laveno (Varese), at the Fondazione Palmieri in Lecce, at the Galerie Bouillon d’Art in Ville de Bordeaux in France and at Palazzo Ducale in Genoa.
In 2023 he was invited to the Ferrania Film Museum in Cairo Montenotte and to the Museo del Vetro in Altare to exhibit his works in the exhibition “Messa a fuoco”.
In September 2024 he inaugurated the exhibition “Pont de arts” in the “Chapelle des Penitents Blancs” in Vence.
Piero Gilardi
Artist Biography
Piero Gilardi was born in Turin in 1942. In 1963, he held his first solo exhibition, Macchine per il futuro (Machines for the Future). Two years later, he created his first works in polyurethane foam, the Tappeti-natura (Nature-Taps), which he exhibited in Paris, Brussels, Cologne, Hamburg, Amsterdam and New York. From 1968 onwards, he stopped producing works to participate in the development of the new artistic trends of the late 1960s: Arte Povera, Land Art, Antiform Art. He collaborated in the creation of the first two international exhibitions of the new trends at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam and the Kunsthalle in Bern.
In 1969, he began a long transcultural experience aimed at the theoretical analysis and practice of the conjunction “Arte Vita” (Art Life). As a political militant and youth culture animator, he conducted various experiences of collective creativity in the urban and “global” peripheries: Nicaragua, Indian Reservations in the USA and Africa.
In 1981 he resumed his activity in the artistic world, exhibiting installations in galleries accompanied by creative workshops with the public. In 1985 he began an artistic research with new technologies through the development of the IXIANA Project which, presented at the Parc de la Villette in Paris, prefigured a technological park in which the general public could experiment with digital technologies in an artistic sense. During the 1990s he developed a series of interactive multimedia installations with intense international activity. Together with Claude Faure and Piotr Kowalski, he founded the international association Ars Technica. As head of the Italian section of Ars Technica, he promoted the international exhibitions in Turin Arslab. Methods and Emotions (1992), Arslab. The Senses of the Virtual (1995), Arslab. The Labyrinths of the Body in Play (1999).
He has published two books of theoretical reflection on his various research: Dall’arte alla vita, dalla vita all’arte (From Art to Life, From Life to Art) (La Salamandra, Milan 1981) and Not for Sale (Mazzotta, Milan 2000 and Les Presses du réel, Dijon 2003). He writes articles for various art magazines such as Juliet and Flash Art.
He promoted the PAV – Parco Arte Vivente project, which opened in Turin in 2008, which summarizes all his experiences related to the Nature/Culture dialectic.
Marina Vargas
Artist Biography
Marina Rodríguez Vargas (Granada, 1980). Known as Marina Vargas, she is a multidisciplinary Spanish artist. Her artistic language focuses on classical iconography, the sacred, mythology, creating replicas in monumental formats under a committed feminist gaze that permeates all her work.
The realization of her projects is preceded by long periods of study, research and specialized reading on the themes of the history she deals with. The artist creates her work, inserted in the neo-baroque, with a careful staging. In her works there are constant dialogues around the ideas of the Judeo-Christian religious idolatries of the West, sexuality, femininity, violence, love and desire; a work full of drama, brutality and combined beauty. Thus we find works in which the revisionist symbolism of contemporary identities reigns, creating a new model of hybrid and monstrous beauty that has completely forgotten the silence of the classical canon.
In 2015, in a large solo exhibition at the Museo Arte Contemporáneo, the CAC in Malaga, she presented an exhibition entitled Destripando el canon (Unravelling the canon). In 2017, she presented the exhibition Las líneas del destino at the Museo ABC in Madrid, having been selected for the Conexiones program, promoted by the Banco Santander Foundation in collaboration with the museum specializing in drawing and works on paper, the Museo ABC. In December 2020, she held her first solo exhibition at the Llamazares Galería, with which she also participated in fairs such as Estampa 2021, where she received the DKV award. In 2023, she received the First Photography Prize from the Enaire Foundation.
Her work has been presented in several international contemporary art fairs, such as Arco España, Zona Maco (Mexico DF), Cosmoscow Art fair or Artinternational Istanbul and La Feria Internacional Arte Santander, among others.
If you also love new and original twists, from this year you have one more reason to choose us for your next holiday on the Ligurian Riviera.
We are waiting for you at the hotel in Diano Marina!
