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In Alberto Burri’s expressive mode of abstraction, raw materials are subjected to alchemical transformation. Like other artists associated with arte povera (“poor art”), a movement championed by the critic Germano Celant, Burri experimented with nontraditional and everyday materials, such as burlap sacks, cracked mud, and discarded fragments of wood. In the immediate postwar period ...
Alberto Burri. 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.
9 de oct. de 2015 · Alberto Burri, Legno e bianco I (Wood and White I), 1956, wood veneer, combustion, acrylic, and Vinavil on canvas. ©2015 FONDAZIONE PALAZZO ALBIZZINI COLLEZIONE BURRI, CITTÀ DI CASTELLO/ARTISTS ...
Learn about this artwork by Alberto Burri in the Guggenheim's Collection Online.
Alberto Burri was an Italian artist and one of the most prominent abstract painters of the 20th century. Associated with the Arte Povera movement, he is perhaps best known for his sacchi (“sacks”) series, wherein he stitched, patched, and painted on rough burlap bags. “The words don’t mean anything to me; they talk around the picture.
15 de feb. de 1995 · Alberto Burri was born in 1915 in Città di Castello, Perugia in the Umbria region of Italy. His father, Pietro, was a wine merchant and his mother, Carolina, was an elementary school teacher. From an early age, Burri demonstrated a passion for drawing and a desire to understand the works of the great Renaissance masters, and especially Piero della Francesca , whom he admired above all others.
Basel, Galerie d’Art Moderne Marie-Suzanne Feigel, Alberto Burri, 14 February – 19 March 1959, no. 3 Bologna, Galleria La Loggia, Mostra di Alberto Burri, 11 May – 22 May 1959, p. 1, illustrated.
