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"In the exhibition SPLENDIDE HOTEL, devised for the Palacio de Cristal, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (Strasbourg, France 1965), puts forward a journey that transports the viewer into spaces and times, where the imaginary is mixed with reality and where literature maps out the guidelines to follow for inhabiting this oneiric world, taking the artwork beyond the meaning of its objects.
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The Hotel Splendide in Lugano was opened in 1887, with the name already coming into being previously in Arthur Rimbaud’s poem Après le Déluge, published in 1886. Splendide was also the name of the hotel in Évian-les-Bains, where Marcel Proust holidayed with his family. This date coincides with the year the Palacio de Cristal was built in the Retiro Park in order to house the plants and flowers for the General Exhibition on the Philippine Islands. [...]"
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - Splendide Hotel
March 13 - August 31, 2014
Palacio de Cristal, Parque de Retiro, Madrid
