Colours, atmospheres and shapes of Liguria

No less interesting, on the mezzanine floor, are the works by Ligurian artists, starting with the oils of Amighetto Amighetti (Genoa 1902-1930), Antonio Schiaffino (Camogli 1879-Genoa 1968), suggestive interpreters of Ligurian Mediterranean light; Orlando Grosso (Genoa 1882- Bonassola 1968) - first director of the Gallery of Modern Art and of the municipal Fine Arts office, and contiuing with La Convalescente exhibited at the 1940 Venice Biennale - Luigi Bassano, Franco Diomede, Armando Barabino, Vittorio Guandalini, Renato Santini .

And, always on the mezzanine, the 20th century sculpture is interesting in the collections of the Galleria with bronzes by Angelo Camillo Maine (Genoa 1892-1969), Entomopsis of 1932 and Stigmatotheuthis of 1936, original subjects drawn from the depths of the sea, the fruit of his experience as a draftsman at the Natural History Museum of Genoa, with vibrant camouflage patinas; and those of Carlo Rivalta (Florence 1887-1941), “sleeping Shepherd”, a figure characterized by an essential and non-rhetorical Martini-style classicism.

Other works are by Guido Galletti, Rodolfo Castagnino, Francesco Falcone, Guido Micheletti, Adolfo Lucarini, Armando Vassallo, Adriana Spallarossa. All protagonists of a fruitful and intense artistic production that distinguished the 20th century in Liguria, with sculptures related to the themes of work, portraits, motherhood, quotidian family life, sometimes executed with a clear classicism as in bronze Madre della Spallarossa (Genoa 1904-Turin 1986) purchased at the II Roman Quadrennial of 1935, with, barely a hint of the regime in the peremptory nature of the pose, in the Ritratto di giovinetta (Portrait of a young girl) by Guido Galletti (London 1893-Genoa 1977), polished ivory stone dedicated to the features of his daughter Paola, and purchased at the 1940 Biennale. Sometimes faced with emphatic accents, such as in Micheletti's Scaricatore(Carrara 1889-Genova 1981) sometimes with a graphic essentiality as in Lucarini (Milan 1890-Pieve Ligure 1959) of which a compact and delicate Maternity from the thirties is presented.

L'archeologo

L'archeologo

L'archeologo

L'archeologo

GAM Modern Art Museum

Ritratto di giovinetta

Ritratto di giovinetta

GAM Modern Art Museum

Ritratto di giovinetta

Ritratto di giovinetta

GAM Modern Art Museum

Entomopsis

Entomopsis

GAM Modern Art Museum

Entomopsis

Entomopsis