GALLERY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, Gallery Of Modern And Contemporary Art

Hi, my name’s Marcy, and I’m your personal guide. Along with MyWoWo, I’d like to welcome you to one of the wonders of the world: the Bergamo Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art.

GAMeC, as the gallery is better known, is one of the most important museums of contemporary art in northern Italy. Inaugurated in 1991, it boasts a wealth of fine works, consisting of three main parts: the Spajani Collection, comprising around forty masterpieces, including works by Boccioni, de Chirico and Kandinsky; the Stucchi Collection, made up of some twenty European paintings from the Fifties and Sixties, and the most original of the three, the Manzù Collection, donated by the sculptor to the city of Bergamo.

Born in Bergamo in 1908, the twelfth child of a shoemaker and sacristan, Giacomo Manzoni – Manzù is a pseudonym – made a name for himself during the war with a number of courageous works: at a time when art was celebrating the Fascist regime, he produced a fiercely critical work depicting the Passion of Christ, in which the accent is on the cruelty of evil. The Gallery is home to many works of this great artist, also known for his sculpture in 1964 of la Porta della Morte for Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican, commissioned by Pope John XXIII. ...