Fon Art Gallery
The perfect combination of comfort and art will make your stay in Catania even more charming
fON Art Gallery is an exhibition space inside of the Four Points by Sheraton Catania Hotel, curated by Fondazione Oelle Mediterraneo Antico ETS. It was born from a desire to enhance 40 years of business with a strong commitment to art as a language – an element of continuity between tradition, identity, and innovation. The entire hotel is a canvas, and the curators use all the spaces to organize exhibitions and tributes to famous artists as well as programmers on contemporary forms of artistic expression. Those who first enter Four Points Catania immediately take in the hotel’s art soul: with a reception wall crafted by Agostino Bonalumi, carved lava stone panoramic lifts by Urano Palma, and the movement of the hotel square captured on the hotel’s “canvas” by Mark Kostabi. The collection includes additional works by international artists like Urs Lüthi, Ryan Mendoza, Gabriele Basilico and Michel Christopher Brown.
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Don't miss the chance to stay in Room 251, designed by American artist Ryan Mendoza, one of the most eclectic and irreverent artists in the international cultural scene.
Wearing a VR visor, you will move around the room in virtual reality and enter the universe of Ryan Mendoza as a voyeur observing him during a photo shoot and immersing yourself in a surreal environment.
In line with OELLE Foundation’s emphasis on artistic connection, the "ONE-O-ONE Contemporary Art Suite" provides a residence for artists with direct access to the Horto, hosting painters, sculptors, musicians, writers, photographers, and directors to produce site-specific works by collecting and cataloging data related to the area. Each artist will design artifacts, from the viewpoint of their own cultural identities, that seek to unify global cultures, visions, aesthetics, and identities. A slate wall invites guests to partake in the "ONE-O-ONE" by pinning up ideas, sensations, and art such as graffiti.
Inaugurated in 2015, the room is named after the homonymous American photographer famous also for his iconic shots of Hollywood stars. The link between our hotel and Phil Stern was born in 2013 when the artist stayed in the same room for about two weeks on his return to Sicily to inaugurate his solo exhibition curated by Ezio Costanzo and produced by @FondazioneOelle, of unpublished photographs of the war on the island in the summer of 1943. The iconic shot of James Dean welcomes you at the entrance in rooms, while the one of Marylin Monroe you will find in the sleeping area along with the series "Welcome back to Sicily" that portray the human aspects of Phil Stern who returns to Sicily after 70 years. The room can be booked on our website as Classic Suite, but do not forget to ask our Booking Office that you would like to stay in the Phil Stern Suite!
More than a million people across five continents celebrate the festivities of St. Agatha in Catania, making it the third most important religious festival in the world for Christianity.
It traditionally occurs February 3-5 in honor of the patron saint’s martyrdom that occurred in 251 A.D. in the Etnean capital, at the hands of soldiers of the Roman proconsul Quinziano, who mutilated the young woman's breasts.
The Agata on the Road project centers on the uniqueness of this festival and people’s devotion to Agata across geographic and social boundaries. This permanent archive by the Foundation aims to capture the complexity of this popular event using art as a universal language.
