Room 5
The Old Coach House is the grandest space on the ground floor: in 18th century Palermitan palaces, great importance was attached to the spaces for carriages and prized horses. During the restoration, all elements added after the original construction were removed and the ancient grandeur returned, and it is as if the room breathes once more.
Anna and Patrick Poirier
In the old coach house, the work by Anne and Patrick Poirier was created in Bordeaux during their residency at the Centre des Arts Plastiques.
Tom Phillips
Tom Phillips’s pieces use visual sources from postcards and photographs to create synthetic images.
Claudio Costa
In the early 1970s Claudio Costa used art to criticize conventional attitudes of Western culture as expressed by museums. His anthropological research reinforced his theoretical and political ideas.