PIETRO RUFFO

Signature Artists are the hallmark of every art’otel, where every detail of our guest rooms, public spaces, restaurants and bars is curated through the lens of our specially selected creative bringing to and art’otel Rome is no exception. art’otel Rome Piazza Sallustio makes its debut in the city with the renowned Roman contemporary artist Pietro Ruffo as its Signature Artist. 

Ruffo lives and works in his native Rome, in a studio which, fittingly for the Italian capital, was once a pasta factory. The theatrical nature of Ruffo’s work  has led to a run of commissions for major fashion houses, from Valentino to Dior, working closely with Maria Grazia Chiuri, as well as his work being on display in the Vatican Apostolic Library. 

Famed for artworks built up of many layers that evolve from historical maps on which Ruffo has drawn, cut-out and painted, Ruffo recounts about the art-process of the art’otel project: “the collection of the art’otel unfolds stories of the different historical layers that have built Rome over the centuries, from the sky above us with a particular focus on constellations, to the flora and fauna on which we walk, but also the people who have lived in this city over the different centuries”.