Gibellina

Gibellina Nuova is the largest open-air museum of contemporary art with an extraordinary collection of works by great artists.

In 1968, the earthquake in the Valle del Belice destroyed Gibellina.

The village was completely rebuilt just a few kilometers away, giving life to the largest museum in the world. In fact, many artists contributed to the reconstruction punctuating the landscape with sculptures and bold architectures that can be admired walking through the streets.

Even the ruins of the earthquake were transformed into a work of art by Alberto Burri who, covering them with a pour of cement, made an enormous Cretto.

At the Civic Museum of Contemporary Art you can admire the works of the main artists who worked in Gibellina during the reconstruction period. Accardi, Consagra, Rotella, Guttuso, Schifano and Sanfilippo, just to name a few.

During the summer, the review of the Orestiadi continues the avant-garde vocation of the place with a review of theater, poetry, visual arts and music.

Carla Accardi owes the ceramic panels Untitled under the porch of the Town Hall, Nino Mustica, instead he was the author of a fountain.

Mimmo Rotella, was the author of the Homage to Tommaso Campanella. The fountain in travertine marble is instead of Andrea Cascella, which, like all the sculptures placed along the streets, has become a reference point to orientate itself in the urban layout with a butterfly.

The white sculpture De Oedipus Rex, City of Thebes, scenographic element of the Oedipus king represented at the Ruins of Gibellina, is by Pietro Consagra.

As a sculptor, he also created Tris and the gates of the cemetery and botanical gardens. For the Orestiadi Arnaldo Pomodoro has designed several scenic machines including the Plow, for The tragedy of Didone by Christopher Marlowe, which is now used as urban furniture.

Fausto Melotti is responsible for the large-scale sculptures entitled Counterpoint, with isolated geometric elements and Sequences, a set of continuous plates on three different layers. Paolo Schiavocampo is the author of Una piazza per Gibellina, a sculptural group made up of several elements designed to perform different functions.