L'allestimento della mostra attraverso il confine per la mostra Palermo Liberty. Digressioni

Abstract

Through the display of over 500 works, the exhibition Palermo Liberty, The Golden Age was an opportunity to further explore the curators' concept of the complexity of the Liberty phenomenon in Palermo. It was a digressive exhibition, both in the decision to place important emblematic works side by side with others that were less well known to the general public, and in proposing an exhibition architecture built within a space with a strong identity such as the piano nobile of Palazzo Santa Croce and Trigona di Sant'Elia, home to the foundation of the same name. In order to represent and narrate this complexity and multi-scalarity proposed by the Fondazione Sant'Elia and the exhibition's scientific committee, the layout offers the visitor-traveller a conceptual approach to the city of Palermo and then leads them through the chronological sections ranging from the construction of the Teatro Massimo to 1923, the year when the construction of the Cinema Massimo was completed.