Lh Hotel Arca Street Art (Spoleto, Italy)

About Lh Hotel Arca Street Art

Hotel Arca by Tellas + Lucamaleonte is a work of art that covers the building walls facing on the Flaminia street. Hotel Arca is the living memory of the ENI era, of Enrico Mattei’s efforts to modernise travel hospitality on motorways. Today, it witnesses a part of our post war history representing modern architectural solutions for that time, which needs to be updated to current living formats. Acting on the whole building surface, making the Hotel a giant urban sculpture, has required care for the territory and adaptation to its natural surroundings. It has now resulted in pleasant vision for local Umbrian citizens and tourists alike, who can now enjoy a contemporary work of art which takes roots in the 14th century paintings (the origin of all frescos and wall paints yet to come) adapted into a format looking at the future. Tellas has used olive leaves as a painting pattern, covering the surface with the most peculiar of all natural Symbols of Umbria. The leaves branches encompass the walls like an ivy, transforming concrete into an unexpected forest. The resulting evidence is a camouflaged space, which silently blends with the surrounding hills, with the blue sky, and the Rocca.