Modern Art Gallery Sant'Anna — Attraction in Palermo

Palermo's Modern Art Gallery is hosted by the exquisite Palazzo Bonet (located next to Saint Ann church) and exhibits artworks from the 19th and 20th Century. It's a good opportunity to admire masterpieces from various modern art currents that alternated in Italy at the beginig of 20th Century, including Futurismo, Novecento, Arte Povera and Metaphisical Art among others. There's also a hall dedicated to Sicilian Novecento, for a more local flavor. The exhibition is well organized and starts in opera style with the dramatic painting "I Vespri Siciliani" by Erulio Eroli. The gran-finale is ensured by masterpieces signed by Guttuso, Pippo Rizzo and Sironi. The only downside during my visit was the lighting of the gallery, which was very poor in some of the halls, ironically in the ones displaying the bright Lojocano's landscapes. Gallery's bookstore worth a...

Don't be misled by other reviews suggesting it's small, there's plenty here! Spread over 3 floors and myriad rooms, there are hundreds of pieces to look at; you could comfortably spend a couple of hours looking around. The exhibits were quiet without being deserted. There are toilets publicly available, a rare treat for Italian attractions. There is also a café in the gallery, but I did not visit it. The full price ticket was €8. The exhibits could be greatly improved with more information; each piece has the name of the work, the artist and the year of creation, and each room has some general information about the thematic linking of pieces in the room. I found myself Googling for context a lot. Worth a few hours, especially on...

Beautiful building. But who expects to see the manifold rainbow of modern Art starting after 1850 is heavily disappointed. Maybe the name of the museum is misleading... There is realism and romanticism and a few cubistic inspired paintings. Landscapes and portraits dominate three stories of a massive building. I do think that Sicilian art was not that provincial the past 200 years. Here and there we have idealised and beautified body's of seemingly "cubistic" realism serving their destiny as last seen by me in 80s Lithuanian/Bosnian state art. If you like that go. If you expect modern sicilian art as it was in conversation with the world in the past 200 years in all it's variations this is...