NHOW AMSTERDAM RAI
Nhow Amsterdam Rai is a 4-star hotel located in the city centre. My works of art merge with the architecture and interior design, developed by renowned architect Reinier de Graaf, is located next to the Rai Convention Centre in the city of Amsterdam.
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MOANA BAR
ART FOR FLOOR
This large visual work covering the floor of the Moana Bar is a continuation of the panoramic art developed on the wall of this space. United both materially (there are no physical barriers between the two works) and conceptually, the two pieces together form a large composition that envelops the visitor in a limitless visual environment.
The union of this work with the composition of the wall creates an enveloping visual environment that transports the viewer to a dreamlike context in which he or she can feel floating, inhabiting a context of which he or she feels part. The result of the union of this floor and the art on the wall creates a proposal for this space that transforms the Moana Bar into an experience that blends art, architecture and interior design in a unique way.
An inhabitable visual universe that contains meaning and establishes a dialogue with the spectator.This composition for the floor is a vibrant fusion of cultural elements that continues the central proposal of the unexpected fusion of two cultures as different as Mexican and Japanese, through the mixture of iconic elements and visual symbols of the identity of both cultures that create a colourful and symbolic landscape that seems, at first glance, a ‘lake’ of elements on which one can float or levitate.
LOUNGE
ART FOR FLOOR
This large visual work covering the floor of the lounge on the first floor of the hotel mixes African and Japanese cultures and builds, through the scattered distribution of plates with different ethnic designs, a chaotic ‘path’ through which one can walk or jump from one plate to another. Beneath this path is an ‘autumn lake’ on which different kinds of flowers and wilted leaves float.
Between this lake and these paths of African plates swim exotic fish, some reminiscent of Japan, others of Africa. Among them, a large orange-coloured Japanese carp stands out, entangled between the plates and leaves.
There is a certain ‘prehistoric’ air in the aesthetics of these large fish and carp that connects with the tribal, timeless beauty of the different dishes that make up the paths that run between this lake. The aesthetics of some may be more reminiscent of Japan and others more of Africa.
