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ART FOR HOTELS BOOK
There is an ever-growing international class of people. They spend their time in the airports, cars, train stations, motels and hotels. They are not sure if the home is everywhere or it's nowhere. They are foreigners in the countries they live in, but also foreign in the countries they came from. They belong to all of the economic and political classes. They include political refugees and jet-setters, business executives and economic migrants, rock stars and illegal immigrants, rich retirees and vagabonds, world class athletes and starving artists. For them hotels, motels and other guest houses are very important places. On the road and in the loneliness of the hotel rooms is where their life happens. This book is dedicated to them.

Relja Penezic creates images he feels would be more appropriate for hotels than art usually displayed there. Focusing on experiences of unfamiliar places in the context of contemporary industrialized travel culture he examines concepts like: escapism, exoticism, freedom, discovery, foreignness, unfamiliarity, strangeness, anonymity, spirituality, isolation, unease with loss of privacy, etc.

“Art for Hotels”* is a series of digital images based on Penezic’s paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, and videos. Images in this book are specifically sized, color corrected, and adjusted in other ways to work in this layout and to support the idea of “Art for Hotels”. They exist in this form only here and that’s why there is no additional information about them.

* Similarity of the title with Brian Eno’s “Music for Airports” is not coincidental.