GAM - Galleria d'Arte Moderna Palermo

The museum displays over two hundred works including paintings and sculptures, divided into fourteen thematic and monographic sections that illustrate the path of the figurative arts in Italy between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, bearing witness to the role that painters and sculptors of national importance have assumed in the events of modernist Palermo. .

Among the greatest masterpieces: the large monumental canvases by Giuseppe Sciuti, the landscapes by Francesco Lojacono, the naturalism of Antonio Leto, the Art nouveau references of Ettore De Maria Bergler, the sparkling and luminous taste of Giovanni Boldini and the dense season of the twentieth century, testified by authors such as Massimo Campigli, Felice Casorati, Mario Sironi, Renato Guttuso, Franz von Stuck, who give us back the atmosphere and suggestions of a modern European capital.

The general project of the scientific organization of the Museum was curated by a group of scholars coordinated by Fernando Mazzocca and composed of Gioacchino Barbera, Luisa Martorelli, Antonella Purpura and Carlo Sisi. The installation project was signed by Corrado Anselmi and the lighting design by Leonardo Adragna.

The scientific organization of the museum is divided into 14 thematic sections that allow easy reading of the physiognomy and history of the collections.

The 214 works on display (176 paintings and 38 sculptures) outline the paths that, from the foundation of the Gallery until today, have contributed to the formation of a representative nucleus of the best of modern art in Italy: from the acquisitions of the early twentieth century according to that taste which favored purchases from the most important national and international exhibitions (such as the Venice Biennials) or from prestigious private galleries, to bequests and donations.