- home
- » Gibellina
- » Monumenti e musei
- » MONTAGNA DI SALE
Visita altri contenuti del comune (en)
Other stages of the itinerary
- art and culture
- monuments and museums
- FONTANA
- SACRARIO AI CADUTI
- MUNICIPIO
- CITTA' DI TEBE
- SCULTURA - Mauro Staccioli
- PALAZZO DI LORENZO
- TRACCE ANTROPOMORFE
- STELLA DI CONSAGRA
- MONUMENTO AL CARABINIERE
- GIARDINO SEGRETO 2
- TEATRO DI CONSAGRA
- SISTEMA DELLE PIAZZE
- BAGLIO DI STEFANO
- GIARDINO SEGRETO 1
- PIAZZA JOSEPH BEUYS
- MEETING DI CONSAGRA
- CASA PIRRELLO
- MUSEO CIVICO D'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA
- CIMITERO NUOVO
- UNA PIAZZA PER GIBELLINA
- TORRE CIVICA
- CASA DEL FARMACISTA
- CHIESA MADRE DI QUARONI
- MUSEO ETNOANTROPOLOGICO DEL LAVORO COBNTADINO
- MONUMENTO A SALVO D'ACQUISTO
- nature
MONTAGNA DI SALE
The Montagna di Sale by Mimmo Paladino was designed in 1990 as a prop for La sposa di Messina by Friedrich Schiller, directed by Elio de Capitani and shown in Gibellina. The mountain, made from cement, plastic reinforced by incorporated fibreglass and crushed stone, is a background to thirty horses made in wood- recurrent animals in works by Paladino.
The work underlines the animal instinct in an exultation of strength and passion. The Montagna di Sale was duplicated and exhibited in Piazza del Plebiscito a Napoli, where it had a notable success.
Mimmo Paladino is a great contemporary artist. Born in 1948, in the’80s he was one of the main exponents of the Transavanguardia, a movement theorized by Achille Bonito Oliva as a reaction to the conceptual art of the’70s. Today he exhibits in the main international centres of contemporary art (some of his works are to be found in the Museum of Modern Art of New York).