page_title: Museum of Contemporary Art of Alcamo
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Museum of Contemporary Art of Alcamo / History
caption_attribution_description: Italiano: Sculture in gesso di Nino Rubino. In esposizione all'interno dell'ex Collegio dei Gesuiti di Alcamo
context_page_description: The Museum of contemporary art of Alcamo is located in Piazza Ciullo in Alcamo, inside the Ex Collegio dei Gesuiti, near the majestic Church of Jesus. The exhibition centre, large about 400 square metres, is on the first floor; at the entrance there are an information desk, a meeting room and a bookshop.
context_section_description: The museum was created in 2014 thanks to the municipal administration led by the Lord Mayor of that period, Dr. Sebastiano Bonventre M.D. In the following October they realized the ambitious project Creative Lab, an integrated system of cultural services aiming at the requalification of the urban space and supporting the development of the territory;  the municipality of Alcamo, the University of Palermo and the cooperatives Agrigest and Nido d’Argento.
  On 28 February 2015,  there was the exhibition entitled  Art on loan, whose protagonists were Cielo d'Alcamo, Giacomo Serpotta and embroidery; the exposition, attended by the artistic director Enzo Fiammetta, has filled the new museum with  works from important museums, such as the Foundation Orestiadi di Gibellina, and from other Italian regions.
  On 30 May 2015, the new museum presented the exhibition Ottocelle (that is Eight Cells): the title took  inspiration from the same configuration of the rooms which were the cells of the ex convent of Jesuits.  There were the works of four Italian artists (Elisa Nicolaci, Francesco De Grandi, Sergio Zavattieri and Luisa Mazza), the winners of the competition launched by the municipality of Alcamo, whose aim was the promotion of its territory through the production of works site specific that today belong to the patrimony of the museum.
  In October  2016 they created a new arrangement of the museum that has also taken part in the XII Edition of the Contemporary's Day called by AMACI (Association of the Museums of Italian Contemporary Art).
caption: Sculptures (plaster casts) made by Nicola Rubino
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