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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

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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