Albergo Pietrasanta Presents ARTE IN VACANZA

An exhibition project developed in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, which presents around 20 photographic works in the hotel’s 18th-century spaces, dedicated to nature as a field of exploration, transformation and connection.

From 23 May 2026, with works by Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto.

Opening: Friday, 22 May, 6.30 pm

Pietrasanta, 14 May 2026 — In 2026, on the occasion of its 30th anniversary, Albergo Pietrasanta promotes a series of celebratory initiatives, including ARTE IN VACANZA, a summer exhibition programme that, within the spaces of the 18th-century Palazzo Barsanti Bonetti, brings contemporary photographic works into dialogue with the hotel’s permanent collection.

Organised this year in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, the exhibition brings together around 20 works by eight artists — Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto — united by a reflection on Nature, understood not as a static element, but as a mutable organism, a space of relation and a field of visual research.

The exhibition stems from the desire to investigate nature not as a fixed subject of representation, but as a dynamic field of exploration, transformation and relation. The selection brings together artists who, through different languages and practices, share the use of photography as a research tool capable not only of recording reality, but also of reinterpreting, deconstructing and reconstructing it, offering a multiplicity of perspectives on landscape and its transformations.

In this journey, nature emerges as a mutable and complex experience: in the works of Takashi Homma and Carolina Sandretto, nature reveals its transformation over time; in the works of Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Teresa Giannico and Leonardo Magrelli, the natural image is deconstructed and reinvented; while the photographs of Guido Guidi and Giovanni Chiaramonte explore a more abstract and contemplative dimension, entrusted to light, shadow and the depth of the gaze.

With ARTE IN VACANZA, Albergo Pietrasanta becomes a space of layers and crossings: rooms, corridors and common areas host the works as presences capable of changing the perception of the spaces and the daily relationship with them. The photographs coexist with visitors, accompanying moments of stillness and passage, entering the private dimension of the hospitality experience.

The works of Guido Guidi and Giovanni Chiaramonte invite a slow and contemplative gaze on the landscape. Guidi focuses on the more marginal aspects of everyday reality, giving poetic depth to what often escapes the eye. For Chiaramonte, the landscape is instead a complex structure of relationships, in which natural and architectural elements become signs to be observed and interpreted.

Takashi Homma and Carolina Sandretto explore nature through time and transformation. While Homma observes the sea as an image of continuous change and impermanence, Sandretto, with her double-exposure Polaroids created during the Covid period, offers a poetic vision of the landscape, suspended between closeness and distance, waiting and change.

In the research of Stefano Caimi and Leonardo Magrelli, photography becomes a tool for transforming the visible. Caimi digitally reworks natural images and forms to reveal hidden rhythms and connections, while Magrelli challenges perception through lenticular works in constant metamorphosis, changing with the movement of the viewer.

Teresa Giannico and Alessandro Calabrese reflect on the construction of the contemporary photographic image. Giannico creates new compositions from visual fragments found online, evoking painting and collage, while Calabrese investigates the relationship between photography and painting, altering and rephotographing the image to redefine the boundaries of the photographic medium.

The entire project stems from an idea of coexistence between art and life, a defining feature of the hotel’s identity since its foundation. The works inhabiting the spaces of the hotel are not conceived as elements to be displayed according to a museum-like route, but as presences to be shared, naturally integrated into spaces of living and everyday life. In this sense, Albergo Pietrasanta emerges as a hybrid place, suspended between home, collection and exhibition space.

It was in 1996 that Rosa and Gilberto Sandretto transformed the historic palazzo into a place open to encounter and relationship, where the collection — built from the 1980s onwards between Italy and international contexts — found space according to a spontaneous logic of coexistence, far from any traditional arrangement. In recent years, the involvement of Carolina Sandretto, photographer and development manager, has further expanded this vision, strengthening the dialogue between hospitality, photographic research and contemporary projects.

InformationAlbergo Pietrasanta presents ARTE IN VACANZAAn exhibition project developed in collaboration with Viasaterna gallery, featuring photographic works by Stefano Caimi, Alessandro Calabrese, Giovanni Chiaramonte, Teresa Giannico, Guido Guidi, Takashi Homma, Leonardo Magrelli and Carolina Sandretto.

From 23 May 2026 at Albergo Pietrasanta.