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In his Sacchi series, the artist Alberto Burri undertook an exploration of prefabricated materials. Curator Emily Braun and conservator Carol Stringari discuss these works, which critics of the period referred to as “unpainted paintings.”
A partir de 1950 adquieren relevancia los Sacchi (Sacos), que llegan a predominar en las exposiciones personales que, después de Roma, se suceden ya en otras ciudades americanas y europeas, como Chicago, Nueva York, Colorado Springs, Oakland, Seattle, São Paulo, París, Milán, Bolonia, Turín, Pittsburgh, Búfalo y San Francisco.
15 de mar. de 2024 · Nel 1950 Burri inaugura la serie dei Sacchi, che lo renderà uno degli artisti più originali della scena romana, ancora fortemente legata a influenze post-cubiste. Burri usa materie umili e deteriorate , come semplici lacerti di sacchi di iuta cuciti insieme, lavorando sulla contrapposizione tra materia e forma senza mai rinunciare ...
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- The Legacy of Alberto Burri
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 ...
On 8 May 1943, Burri's unit in Tunisia was captured by the British. Once turned over to the Americans, he was transported to a prisoner-of-war camp in Hereford, Texas, which housed some 3000 Italian officers. Among his fellow prisoners were academics, architects, and the artist Dino Gambetti, founder of the Sintesigroup. It was Gambetti who encoura...
By 1950 Burri was creating assemblages out of burlap sacks and white household linens. His work was not met with public approval in Italy, however. He was rejected by the Venice Biennale in 1952, but his fortunes changed when the founder of the Spatialism movement, the Argentine-Italian Lucio Fontana, endorsed his work by purchasing the first piece...
Burri also created stage sets for La Scala, Milan and other theatres, working on designs for plays, ballet and opera. The most important of these was Spirituals, Morton Gould's ballet held at La Scala in 1963. Later, in 1973, Burri designed sets and costumes for November Steps, a production conceived of by his wife with a score by the Japanese comp...
Burri had a profound influence on artists of his own time and of later generations. His penetration of the canvas into three-dimensions paved the way for the Spatialist slashes of Lucio Fontana, while the Arte Povera movement took on Burri's use of everyday materials, leaving traces of the physical and chemical transformations of nature in their wo...
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.
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26 de oct. de 2015 · 8.9K views 7 years ago. In his Sacchi series, the artist Alberto Burri undertook an exploration of prefabricated materials. Curator Emily Braun and conservator Carol Stringari discuss these...
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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.
