Feb
27
Art Exhibit Comes to the Halls and Walls of Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill
Contributor: Editor |Monday, Feb. 27 2012 at 3:20 PM
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No need to stop an art gallery or museum. Through April 30, guests of Hyatt Regency London - The Churchill can sleep in a suite that's part of pieces from a current contemporary art exhibit. Or, simply take a walk around the lobby.

Saatchi Gallery, keepers of London's most famous contemporary art collection, is holding three exhibitions throughout the year right inside the hotel. In addition to the dedicated Saatchi Gallery Suite, guests can check out the first exhibition, "One Giant Leap," on display now in the hotel's public spaces.

We had a blast moving it into the hotel!

Some exhibition highlights:

  • Stella Vine’s painting of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher with her husband Denis Thatcher
  • Christina Mackie’s life-sized hippopotamus sculpture
  • Martin Honert’s monumental sculpture of two giants, each almost 3-metres high, who appear to have stumbled into the hotel
  • A series of small painting by Chantal Joffe featuring children, teenagers and young athletes
  • Paintings by Dexter Dalwood in which he imagines what you might find if you were invited into the homes of Liberace and the Queen

For the art aficionados, some Suite highlights:

  • Ronin Cho’s interactive knocking door
  • Steve Bishop’s sculpture, inspired by the Gaultier perfume bottle, which combines a taxidermied fox, concrete and paint
  • Rafal Zawistowki’s Judas
  • Celine Fitoussi’s wall-to-wall soap installation in the luxury bathroom

This London Hyatt is no stranger to art. Over the past few years, it has built partnerships with the Frieze Art Fair and developed a tradition of working with artists. The new partnership with Saatchi Gallery brings only more great things to come!

 

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