On the occasion of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Guttuso Museum, Villa Cattolica is enriched with works, including the “Daneu Thshinke” collection
On view from Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024
The works in the permanent collection of the Guttuso Museum in Villa Cattolica represent a composite nucleus that testifies to the variety and complexity of Sicilian figurative culture in the 19th and 20th and early 21st centuries. With the opening of the new exhibit on Saturday, Feb. 24, on the occasion of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of the birth of the Guttuso Museum, the opportunity is taken to revive the interest of the now established audience of visitors and scholars by proposing a more articulate restructuring of the pre-existing museum itinerary.
To the Museum’s markedly Sicilian identity, evidenced by Renato Guttuso ‘s unequivocal realism and the relationship strongly linked to his historical time, the choices made by the Museum, since its inception, have wanted to accommodate other things, opening up to the territory and to individual works, telling completely different stories but chorally aimed at the common destiny of Art.
Among the donations, one stands out in terms of the number of works, 120 artifacts, and because it is linked to the cart tradition. It is the Daneu Thshinke collection. The collection is exhibited on the ground floor, in the lower bodies, and consists of 120 artifacts for the most part are related to “lace,” including: 67 central elements of spindle, 9 central elements of key, 19 keys, 7 sponde, 6 Catanese elements, 1 wheel, 1 spindle, a frame (mock sponde) depicting The Battle of Ponte Ammiraglio copy of Guttuso’s painting, 4 stanghe, 5 reuses.
Many of the donated pieces have been displayed in various exhibitions and repeatedly described in publications.
The municipal administration would like to thank Dr. Lisa Sciortino for her cooperation and for putting the donors in touch with the Guttuso Museum and the Bagheria municipal administration itself, led by Mayor Filippo Maria Tripoli.
