The Palazzo Riso, or RISO, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea della Sicilia (''RISO, Contemporary Art Museum of Sicily'' also known as Palazzo Belmonte Riso), is a regional contemporary art museum located in the ancient Corso Vittorio Emanuele,

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History and architecture

The Palazzo Riso's architecture clearly shows the final days of

Sicilian Baroque Sicilian Baroque is the distinctive form of Baroque architecture which evolved on the island of Sicily, off the southern coast of Italy, in the , when it was part of the Spanish Empire. The style is recognisable not only by its typical Baroqu ...

as it was transformed into Neoclassicism. Designed by the architect

Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia Giuseppe Venanzio Marvuglia (6 February 1729 – 19 December 1814) was an Italian architect. Biography Marvuglia received his first training in his native Palermo. This was followed by a stay in Rome from 1747 to 1759. By the end of his time ...

, the house was constructed at the end of the 18th century and completed in 1784. It became property of the Prince of Belmonte, and in the 19th century it passed to Baron Riso. The marble Riso coat of arms on the portal of the

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was carved by

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. During

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the building was damaged by Allied bombing. Restored from the mid-1990s, since 2008 it has become a contemporary art museum.

The museum

The Riso Contemporary Art Museum of Sicily is one of the most important museums in the region. The museum collects works by contemporary artists including Andrea Di Marco, Alessandro Bazan, Giovanni Anselmo, Emilio Isgrò, Domenico Mangano, Antonio Sanfilippo, Carla Accardi,

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, Croce Taravella, Francesco De Grandi, Francesco Simeti, Fulvio Di Piazza, Giulia Piscitelli, Laboratorio Saccardi, Luca Vitone,

Paola Pivi Paola Pivi (born 1971) is an Italian multimedia artist. She has worked in artistic media including photography, sculpture and installation. Some of her works contain performance elements, at times involving live animals and people. In 1999, she ...

Pietro Consagra Pietro Consagra (6 October 1920 – 16 July 2005) was an Italian sculptor. In 1947 he was among the founding members of the Forma 1 group of artists, who advocated both Marxism and structured abstraction. Life Consagra was born on 6 Oct ...

, Richard Long, Richard T. Scott, and

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.The Riso Collection
. Retrieved February 6, 2011.

Bibliography

* Lóránd Hegyi (curated by). ''Essential Experiences''. Milano, Mondadori Electa, 2009, pp. 165. * AAVV. ''Passaggi in Sicilia: la collezione di Riso e oltre''. Milano, Skira, 2009, pp 191. * AAVV. ''Sicilia 1968/2008 Lo spirito del tempo''. Milano, Silvana, 2009. pp151. * AAVV. ''I luoghi dell'arte. Riso/Annex. I quaderni di Riso''. Milano, Mondadori Electa, 2010, pp. 200. * AAVV. ''Fare musei. Riso/Annex. I quaderni di Riso''. Milano, Mondadori Electa, 2011, pp. 200.

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* Contemporary art galleries in Italy Riso Museums in Palermo Art museums and galleries in Palermo {{italy-art-display-stub

History and architecture

The museum

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