Intervention Against Tasteless Wall Decorations in Hotels and Holiday Apartments.(Part 4)
Intervention gegen geschmacklose Wanddekoration in Hotelzimmern und Ferienwohnungen.(Teil 4)
Since 2010 I have secretly been slightly altering tasteless or boring hotel or holiday apartment art whenever I had the chance to.
Love and Devotion
Collage on artwork in a Frankfurt Hotel
Found images from a magazine, double-sided tape
April 2013
Our room on the 32nd floor was decorated with a digital print of some kind of old engraving, possibly showing an early view of Frankfurt. (There was no signature or any other information provided to trace the artwork to its original creator.) It was paced behind glass in a big golden frame and securely fastened to the wall with screws.
The decoration in the hotel room… (or the “Before” picture)
Hotel deco-busting collage ‘Love and Devotion’ by Imke Rust
Details:
Detail of the deco-busting collage ‘Love and Devotion’ © Imke Rust
Detail of the deco-busting collage ‘Love and Devotion’ © Imke Rust
Detail of the deco-busting collage ‘Love and Devotion’ © Imke Rust
And some more dialogue happens when you open the curtains and can see Frankfurt’s skyline with the building of the Deutsche Bank (amongst others) reflected on the image…
Reflections of the modern Frankfurt skyline on the altered image
