GAM Sant’Anna Gallery of Modern Art.
The Sant’Anna Gallery of Modern Art is a public museum of contemporary art located on Via Sant’Anna, in the Calsa district of the historic centre of Palermo.
The museum presents more than two hundred works, including paintings and sculptures, divided into fourteen thematic sections.
The collection introduces us to the visual arts of Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries with a focus on the Sicilian context.
Some of the artists represented here are: historical themes by Giuseppe Patania, landscapes by Francesco Lo Iacono, Art Nouveau by Ettore de Maria Bergler, sparkling flavour by Giovanni Boldini and artists such as: Mario Sironi, Renato Guttuso, Pippo Rizzo and finally Franz von Stuck, representative of German Art Nouveau, Expressionism and Symbolism.
The museum has his painting “Sin”, acquired during the Venice Biennale.
Also in the gallery are works by other famous artists such as Massimo Campiglia, Carlo Carra, Felice Cazorati, Eustachio Catalano, Giorgio de Chirico, Emilio Greco, Nino Frankina, Lia Pasqualino Noto, Antonio Leto. Lo Forte, Francesco Lochacono, Luigi Lochacono, Vincenzo Ragusa, Mario Rutelli, Aleardo Terzi, Onofrio Tomaselli.
The museum complex consists of two buildings united in historical times: the former Baroque Franciscan monastery of the church of Sant’Anna la Misericordia and the adjacent Catalan Gothic palace of Palazzo Bonet.
The first civic gallery of modern art was born in 1910 and is located in the Ridotto of the Politeama theatre, which was to be a temporary place also due to lack of space, it was created by the will of Empedocle Restivo, to whom he was soon dedicated.
The place in the Politeama Theatre immediately seemed unsuitable for the Gallery, but for economic reasons it remained in that place until today, when the 17th century monumental complex of Sant’Anna was restored, the Gallery was moved in December 2006 and became GAM Palermo.
On 21 December 2007 the collection was enriched thanks to the donation of two sculptures by Giorgio de Chirico (“Ettore and Andromaca” and “Oreste and Pilad”) from the Bilotti collection.
The museum complex consists of two adjacent buildings: but the gallery also has a third annex in Palazzo Ziino: the ground floor houses the collection of plaster casts previously stored with the rest of the collection in the old building of the Politeama theatre, the ground floor is used as a space for temporary exhibitions.
Open all days except Mondays, 24 and 25 December, 1 January, 1 May
All days except Mondays, 24 and 25 December, 1 January, 1 May.
