Antonio Presti's Art Dreams

Antonio Prestis Art Dreams
For a visionary personality like Antonio Presti, who has devoted much of his life to art, transforming everyday space into a masterpiece in which to live was a recurring thought.

So much so that since 1988, when he asked Mario Ceroli to design the first "art room" in his hotel facing the sea at Castel di Tusa, he has never stopped experimenting.

Year after year, artist after artist, and now the masterpiece rooms of the Atelier sul Mare hotel are fourteen in number: spaces of great poetic intensity that enchant, enthuse, enthrall visitors from all over the world.

After Ceroli, Presti has called on Maurizio Mochetti, Hidetochi Nagasawa, Michele Canzoneri, Paolo Icaro, Mauro Staccioli, Renato Curcio with Agostino Ferrari, Maria Lai, Raoul Ruiz, Luigi Mainolfi, Piero Dorazio with Graziano Marini, Fabrizio Plessi, Annalisa Furnali, and Dario Bellezza with Adele Cambria, who together with Presti himself have created a room dedicated to Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Presti asks the artists to take possession of the space as if it were a canvas, a block of marble, making it material for creative work.

Eliminating all the finishes (the Atelier sul Mare is a traditional hotel in Mediterranean style, built before Presti's project began) and the walls, doors, windows and balconies