The hotel Furka Blickwhich from 1983 to 1999 was the site of Furk’art – an ongoing project of the Swiss gallerist Marc Hostettler in which about sixty artists participated after his invitation is available for sale.

Built on the mountain pass Furka Pass of the Swiss Alpsthe 19th century hotel hosted works by artists such as Marina Abramovic, Daniel Buren, James Lee Byars, Richard Long, Roman Singer, Gretchen Faust.

His striped shutters Buren adorn his hotel and restaurant and the entrance were designed by him Rem Koolhaas in the 1990s.

THE Marc Hostettler in 1978 he bought it Hotel Furka Blick. He invited the artists to spend part of the summer to create, to intervene in the landscape, to leave traces on the buildings, to come face to face with the “other” public: tourists, wanderers, cyclists.

Hostettler in 2004 sold the property and some of its outbuildings to her heir Ricola lozenge Alfred Richterichwhose foundation covered the cost of the site’s maintenance work. The Institute Furkablick he preserved the works of art, renovated the buildings and made a limited number of additional interventions, the most recent of which is the “A vendre” (For Sale) of Guillaume Bijlrevealed this summer, reports arforum. The sign refers to the artist’s 1986 work “Zu Vermieten” (For Rent) on another building in the area, acquired in the late 1990s by a Belgian sculptor.

Details of the Furkart project and the hotel are included in the book “Furkart ephemera”which was created by Thomas Rodriguez. The volume collected all the communication material issued by the founder of the project Marc Hostettler, postcards, press releases, programs and presents the works and all the artists who took part.