Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Burri –
La Pittura – Irriducibile Presenza
Burri – The Unbreakable
Power of Painting
The Fondazione
Giorgio Cini, on the Island of San
Giorgio Maggiore is hosting, until July 28, the retrospective exhibition, Burri - The Unbreakable Power of Painting devoted
to the “Master of Materials” Alberto Burri - Citta di Castello
1915 – Nice 1995 - is curated by the art historian and president of the Fondazione Burri, Bruno Cora. Based on the synergy between the two
institutions and in collaboration with Tornabuoni
Art and Paola Sapone, the
exhibition is seen as being a climax to international events in recent years
celebrating the centenary of the birth of the artist.
Sacco e
Bianco
- 1953
curator Bruno Cora and Umberto Allemandi
Grande
Legno Combustione M.
– 1958
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Burri –
La Pittura – Irriducibile Presenza
Visitors can follow the most important stages
of Burri’s artistic career chronologically
through about fifty works selected from his most significant series: from the
very rare Tars, Moulds and the
monumental Sacks to Combustions, Woods, Plastics, the
extraordinary Cretti – Cracks - and the late Cellotex, the last stage in the great Umbrian artist’s explorations of diverse materials.
Rosso
Plastica M3
– 1961
Emilio
Isgro
Patrizia Sandretto
Re Rebaudengo, Emilio Re Rebaudengo
Costanza
Vilizzi
Grande
Nero Cretto
– 1977
The multimedia documentary section, includes
some rare films portraying Burri
at work. The exhibition design, aims to reconstruct the artistic development of
one of the greatest pioneers of the new 20th-century
painting, which through his experimentation addressed the crucial theme of the
use of humble materials and their
transformation into a work of art. The exhibition catalogue in Italian and
English, has introductory essays by Bruno
Cora and the director of the Fondazione
Cini Institute of Art History, Luca Massimo Barbero.
Cretto G3
– 1975
Diego Esposito
Giovanni Alliata di Montereale
Isola di San Giorgio Maggiore - Fondazione Giorgio Cini
Burri –
La Pittura – Irriducibile Presenza
Luca
Massimo Barbero and Pasquale Gagliardi
The Fondazione Giorgio Cini
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