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Sleeping in an art gallery: Beatilla and the "Circles of Life"
Here art is not hung: it lives in. Beatilla was founded by an artist and decorated piece by piece by his own hands — staying with us means spending the night inside his collection.
There are farm stays with paintings on the walls, and then there is a place where it happened the other way round: first the artist, then the house. Beatilla was founded by Luca Bornoffi — born in Mantua in 1980, raised in the countryside among horses and open landscapes — and every room carries his hand: the works, the colours, the furniture reclaimed and repainted piece by piece.
The Circles of Life
His research has a name and a shape: Circles of Life — circles overlapping in tone, size and transparency, a way of speaking about connections, encounters, the imperfect rhythm of living. After travelling through more than sixty countries, Bornoffi brought that research home: his works belong to collections and exhibitions around the world and to the international platforms, but the place where they truly live is here.
Rooms as canvases
That is why the rooms carry names of colours and fruits — Pomodoro, Mandarino, Melanzana, Mela Verde — and why no two are alike: each is a chapter of the same collection, between art, eco-design and creative reuse. Sleeping in them is the slowest way of visiting an exhibition: at night the circles are the last thing you see, in the morning the first.
Getting your hands in the colours
And for those not content with looking, the studio is open: the Art Workshop is an experience for everyone, including people who have never painted — materials included, and the work goes home with you. Practising artists have the Art Residency instead: time, space and countryside to work in.
At a glance
- The artist
- Luca Bornoffi, Mantua 1980 — founder of Beatilla
- The series
- Circles of Life: circles, transparencies, connections
- The rooms
- decorated piece by piece, no two alike
- To do
- the Art Workshop on request, open to everyone
The right question is not «what paintings are in the room», but «which room of the painting will you sleep in». There are nine answers: pick your colour.
Sleep inside a collection —
and if you feel like it, paint your own the next day.