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Bar Far is an installation and a working bar by Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page and presented in Villa Lontana’s new space in Trastevere. Renovated in collaboration with Studio Strato, this new location extends Villa Lontana’s ongoing commitment to exploring the intersections between ancient and contemporary practices. Bar Far echoes the name of Villa Lontana—‘Faraway Villa’—whose headquarters are located in the north of Rome and historically outside the city walls. With the opening of this site, situated deeper within the city, the former physical distance is transformed into a metaphysical one: the manifold illusions that comprise Bar Far conjure an ambiguous beyond.
Keith-Roach, a sculptor, and Page, a painter, have animated the architecture of this newly renovated interior, creating a hallucinatory gesamtkunstwerk in the vein of ancient and baroque Rome. Bar Far is both an artwork and a bar that draws inspiration from the art-bars of the past: Cabaret Voltaire, the…
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Bar Far is an installation and a working bar by Clementine Keith-Roach and Christopher Page and presented in Villa Lontana’s new space in Trastevere. Renovated in collaboration with Studio Strato, this new location extends Villa Lontana’s ongoing commitment to exploring the intersections between ancient and contemporary practices. Bar Far echoes the name of Villa Lontana—‘Faraway Villa’—whose headquarters are located in the north of Rome and historically outside the city walls. With the opening of this site, situated deeper within the city, the former physical distance is transformed into a metaphysical one: the manifold illusions that comprise Bar Far conjure an ambiguous beyond.
Keith-Roach, a sculptor, and Page, a painter, have animated the architecture of this newly renovated interior, creating a hallucinatory gesamtkunstwerk in the vein of ancient and baroque Rome. Bar Far is both an artwork and a bar that draws inspiration from the art-bars of the past: Cabaret Voltaire, the…
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