The Majano Art Gallery houses paintings and sculptures coming from the Pro Majano, the Municipality and private collections. The first room is dedicated to the greatest masters and collects works by internationally renowned artists who have exhibited in Majano on the occasion of the prestigious exhibitions organized since the 1960s. Among these there are: Cascella, Sassu, Dalì, Matta, Guttuso and Ziveri.
The corridor and the lower floor instead host works attributable to the Majano Prize created by the Pro Loco in the 1970s. The visit to the art gallery ends with the sector dedicated to Sebastian Matta's Araucana. The Pinacoteca also collects numerous works by artists from the region and the municipality.
Sebastian's Matta Auracana - Curiosities
Sebastian Matta was one of the most important artists of the 20th century. Born in Chile in 1911 and European by adoption, his works of art were exhibited in major museums around the world. Starting from the second surrealism, he finds a very personal way of expression by combining the foundations of the artistic movement led by Salvador Dalì with the use of original painting techniques and often close to the style of the Pop Art.
'The Araucana' consists of a series of lithographs made in 1979 to illustrate the epic poem with which Alonso De Ercilla describes the conquest of the territories of present-day Chile by the Spaniards. It is a dramatic narrative of the end of the Araucanians, a proud and pure people, overwhelmed by the economic interests and thirst for power of the invaders, the Europeans who came from the sea.
