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10 de feb. de 2021 · Así describió Burri su primer impacto con las ruinas de Gibellina. Cretto di Gibellina, la colada de hormigón más preciosa del mundo. Burri es un artista famoso precisamente por sus cretti, que son superficies rugosas con grandes incisiones que expresan plasticidad y, según algunos, heridas.
La obra del artista en la década de los setenta experimenta un progresivo enrarecimiento de medios técnicos y formales en pos de soluciones monumentales, desde los Cretti (Grietas) (tierras y cola Vinavil) a los Cellotex (aglomerados de uso industrial).
Cretto G 1 (1975) by Alberto Burri La Galleria Nazionale. In 1973 Burri made his debut with another new material and process. The "Cretti" (Cracks), created with a new blend of different...
The Cretti are Alberto Burri’s penultimate series of works, named for their induced craquelure, or fracturing of the paint surface.
- What Is It?
- Background
- The Artwork
- The Meaning
- Process
- Completion After 30 Years in The Making
- Inspiration
- Traces of Beuys
- Location
- Final Words
Also known as Cretto di Gibellina (crack of Gibellina) or The Great Cretto, the Cretto di Burri alias crack of Burri is a landscape artwork by Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician Alberto Burri. He started to work on it in 1984 and left it unfinished in 1989 because of a lack of funds. It finally got finished in 2015 and is locat...
The history of this land art sculpture coincides with the destruction of the city of Gibellina by the 1968 Belice earthquake1. A powerful quake completely flattened the city, leaving thousands of families homeless. The desire for the renovation of the town was harbored by then-city mayor Ludovico Corrao. After the earthquake, the town’s reconstruct...
To help restore the city back to it its former self, Burri designed a massive monument that retraced the streets and alleys. He used blocks made by accumulating and caging the rubble of the old structures. The massive yet walkable slits in the concrete mimic the old Gibellina, re-conjuring three-dimensional memories of the destroyed city while simu...
In Burri’s opinion, the cracked landscapes of Death Valley that had influenced his work served as a psycho-geography, signifying the violence and trauma of fascist rule as well as industrialized warfare that he witnessed as an Italian citizen living through both World Wars. Similarly, the cracked white concrete of this monument memorializes and con...
The residents were not welcoming of the idea of a giant concrete monument on the site of their old city. To convince them, Burri created a model of a large version of one of his crack paintings but made of concrete, with the fissures representing the original street map of the old city. After plenty of discussions, the residents agreed. Crews assem...
The monument sits on an 8,000 square meters landscape. In 1989, the project ran out of funds and the work was halted when around 6,000 square meters of space had been covered. Nearly a decade later, a petition was lodged by art historians and other prominent Sicilians calling for the completion of the project, and funds were raised to complete the ...
Born in Umbria, Italy, in 1915, Burri grew up in a region so rich in art history that he did not have to study art in school. He earned his medical degree from the Perugia University and in 1940, he was conscripted into the Italian army for World War II. After serving two and a half years, he was captured as a prisoner of war and sent to Hereford, ...
Joseph Beuys traveled to Gibellina, where he met with Alberto Burri. Beuys was already a prominent artistic figure not only in Italy but in the world. The trigger for that chance meeting and its promotion was that Beuys and Alberto Burri shared a common path in the past. They both studied medicine, served their countries during the war. Both also s...
Address:Strada Provinciale Gibellina – Salaparuta, 91024 Gibellina TP, ItalyDirections:The monument can be accessed via the state road 119 of Gibellina in the stretch that intersects the integral nature reserve Grotta di Santa Ninfa between the eponymous town and Salaparut...Hours:24hCretto di Burriis a memorial to a calamity and thus, it is an artwork with an emotional link to its location. The monument is surrounded by ruins and clumps of upturned grounds, which function as witnesses to the massive power of destruction. The peacefulness that the artist wanted for this location is there, as it nuzzles silently amidst green thi...
Alberto Burri (12 March 1915 – 13 February 1995; Italian pronunciation: [alˈbɛrto buˈri]) was an Italian visual artist, painter, sculptor, and physician based in Città di Castello. He is associated with the matterism of the European informal art movement and described his style as a polymaterialist.
13 de mar. de 2021 · Uno de los artistas fue el prolífico pintor y escultor italiano "polimaterialista" Alberto Burri (1915-1995). En lugar de proponer arte para la nueva Gibellina, Burri regresó a las ruinas de la ciudad vieja.
