The Museum – Osservatorio dell'arte contemporanea in Sicilia is a private museum of contemporary art in Bagheria. It was founded in 1997 by the gallery owner Ezio Pagano.
What to see
The museum gathers the results of the activity of Ezio Pagano's private galleries in Bagheria, active between 1965 and 1994. It includes paintings and sculptures by various artists, among them Carla Accardi, Pietro Consagra, Piero Guccione, Emilio Isgrò, Augusto Perez, Antonio Sanfilippo, Salvatore Scarpitta, Nino Franchina and Enzo Tomasello; there are also works by Fosco Maraini, Ferdinando Scianna and Giuseppe Tornatore.
It also houses a collection of photographs, among them twenty portraits of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo taken by Leo Matiz. It holds the Historical Archive of Sicilian Artists of the twentieth century (ASAS) and has a specialised library of ten thousand volumes and a video library. The scientific committee is made up of Ezio Pagano, Gillo Dorfles, Renato Barilli, Enrico Crispolti, Eva Di Stefano and Vittorio Fagone.
Visiting
The museum is in Bagheria. The sources consulted give no exact address, hours or tickets: check them with the museum.
Our editors' tip
Besides the works on show, the museum organises talks with critics and artists and art exhibitions. The official website given by the sources is museum-bagheria.it: it is worth consulting it for the programme.
