NYX Hotel Milan

The hotel as a gallery — terrace walls and suite interiors painted for NYX Hotel Milan.

NYX Hotel Milan – Suite Terrace is an interior and exterior mural project created by artist Neve in 2017 at NYX Hotel, Milan, curated by Daniele Decia.

A site-specific commission for the NYX Hotel Milan, curated by Daniele Decia, painted on the terrace level of the suites and on the interior walls. The central work occupies two large panels on either side of a doorway that opens onto the terrace and the Milan skyline. On the left panel: a woman's hand descends from above — jeweled ring, dark manicured nails, white fur — holding the stopper of a perfume bottle, about to release it or just having released it. On the right panel: the same woman's face, full and frontal — black hair, red lips, heavily made eyes with kohl and glitter, a crystal choker and chandelier earring. Beside her shoulder, a peacock. The two panels form a diptych. Between them, through the real opening in the wall, the city of Milan looks back: towers, glass, the skyline of Porta Nuova at dusk or at night. The game the painting plays is with the real and the painted. The perfume stopper she holds is above the opening — the city is inside the bottle, or she is dropping it into the city, or the city is what she is about to uncork. The panels do not just frame the view; they describe someone who has the city in her hand. In the suites, the peacock from the terrace mural continues across the walls: a close-up of the bird's head in deep blue and gold against black — the crest of golden feathers, the amber eye, the white cheek patch — and, on a separate wall, a single peacock feather painted in gold and green, its iridescent eye at the center, the fronds radiating outward into the white surface.