INSECT HOTEL „LIVING INSIDE MARLOW MOSS“

INSECT HOTEL „LIVING INSIDE MARLOW MOSS“

Austere geometry and a black rectangular pattern filled with the primary colours are characteristic for the art of British artist Marlow Moss.*

Petra Stelzmüller, designer of the daily life, is asking herself:
Can one make more of a rectangle than just a rectangle?
Yes, Moss can.

Can one live inside art?
Yes, one can.

Can one design an appealing insect hotel?
Yes, I can.

Why shouldn’t nature’s most important beneficial animals live chic?

Thinking beyond Moss’ designs of horizontal and vertical lines the first sketch of the insect-hotel turned out as the relation of a rectangle to a rectangle within a rectangle. I have reduced the primary colours used by Moss to the accentuation of red and black with the surface of the various fillings now yellow, blue and white.
Inspired by the movie „Being John Malkovich“ we humans turn to be – but from outside – spectators of the hustle and bustle of insect life. By dwelling in the LIVING INSIDE MARLOW MOSS-insect-hotel insects enjoy the luxury of living in a piece of art that has been transferred into threedimensionality. A design-object for nature-lovers with a taste for quality and style.

Would Moss move in with himself now?

Would John Malkovich now rather be an insect than always just himself?

*The Belvedere Museum writes in its RADIKAL exhibition 2025
“In a radical departure from any form of representation, mathematically precise compositions defined the work of Marlow Moss, a member of the influential artist group Abstracion-Création in Paris in the 1930s. Moss reduced the pictorial elements to precise lines and areas of color in primary colors. Using these creative tools, Moss created ever-changing rhythms. From 1930 onwards, parallel lines became a distinctive feature of Moss’s repertoire of motifs. Piet Mondrian would later adopt this from Moss and be celebrated as its inventor.”

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