On Sunday, 24th November 2024 opens to the public "Pinakothek'a." From Cagnaccio to Guttuso, from Christo and Jeanne-Claude to Arienti, a major exhibition that, in the spaces of Palazzo Sant'Elia, exhibits part of the rich and documented collection of Elenk'art.

The exhibition, born from a shared idea between Fondazione Sant'Elia, Città Metropolitana di Palermo, and Elenka, is sponsored by the ARS (Sicilian Regional Assembly), the Regional Department of Tourism, Sports, and Entertainment, and the City of Palermo.

Approximately two hundred works from Pinakothek'a - selected from a corpus of over four hundred pieces - that map like a mosaic the production of the entire 20th century and include Italian and foreign representatives of the contemporary scene. The exhibition is curated by art historians Sergio Troisi and Alessandro Pinto. Established over the past decades, the Elenk'art collection now includes hundreds of works that allow for a fundamental review of the 20th century and extend to the present day.

The interwar period is represented by important paintings (among others) by Cagnaccio di San Pietro, Donghi, Marussig, Tozzi, de Chirico, Carrà, Pirandello, Mafai, Guttuso (with 18 works following his path even in the post-war period); Italian abstraction with Accardi, Sanfilippo, Consagra, Turcato, Dorazio, Perilli, Guerini; informal abstraction with Lionello Venturi and paintings by Afro, Vedova, Santomaso, Corpora, Birolli.

At Palazzo Sant'Elia, the story of a great season of Italian art and beyond unfolds - the European informal galaxy is represented by Hartung and Mathieu - while the experimental tension of the 1960s and 1970s is reflected in the works of Novelli, Del Pezzo, Pascali, Castellani, Bonalumi, Vasarely, Nigro, Vigo, Varisco, Rotella, Baj, Adami, Ontani, Isgrò, Christo.

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