Legacy: A Story of Love and Cultural Heritage

Mario Colonna, owner of the Art Hotel Gran Paradiso in Sorrento, is already known in the news for his visionary ability to create many years ago a hotel dedicated entirely to contemporary art and the artists who shared this adventure with him.

The pleasure of sharing, relationship with art, and friendship prompted him this year to dedicate to Cynthia and Renato Penna, collectors of contemporary art, an exhibition of a small part of their collection that will be displayed in the hotel rooms throughout the 2024 season.
Hotel guests will be confronted with paintings, sculptures, installations and photographs that will brighten their stay with that extra touch of reflection that doesn’t hurt even on vacation.
On display are works by some 70 international artists who have accompanied the Pennas on a 20-year journey of love for art and commitment through the activities of their cultural institution ART1307, which has seen works of great conceptual depth and ideational power flow through the halls of many museums and galleries and into the pages of many catalogs.

The artist residency on the hill of Posillipo has inspired since 2012 many artists who from various countries have come to “breathe” culture, colors, and the landscape of this city in a constant interchange with local artists that has created bridges, connections and friendships resolving in a moment of individual growth.
Legacy is thus configured as a joyful and multifaceted artistic itinerary consisting not only of works but above all of gazes, experiences and representations. The collecting will of Mario Colonna and Cynthia and Renato Penna, meets in the deep love for art understood here as a privileged means to meet otherness and, in a constant cross-reference between inside and outside, also ourselves.