Michele Catti’s marine collection at the GAM shows us how this painter managed to rework emotions and feelings through these views in which the reproductions of the sky and the sea show his deep emotional identification with the natural world. Although there is not always a clear topography indication, the characteristics of these marinas suggest that you are along the coast of Palermo.
Michele Catti, Alba, 1910, oil on canvas
Among these works, the painting Alba (1910) occupies a separate place which, in a suspended atmosphere, restores the silent immobility of dawn which embellishes the marine landscape of the Gulf of Palermo, of which Monte Pellegrino can be seen in the distance, and in which the rising sun is still caged in the morning mists.
Michele Catti, La tonnarazza, 1900 ca., oil on canvas