Alberto Burri replaced conventional painting materials with burlap sacks, tar, wood, iron and burned plastic. A former physician and prisoner of war, he made damage, repair and material transformation central to postwar abstraction.
Painting; assemblage; combustion; plastic; burlap
Major Works
- 1954Sacco e Rosso
- 1952Grande Sacco
- 1957–58Combustione Plastica
- 1961Rosso Plastica
- 1958Ferro
- 1959Legno
- 1975Bianco Cretto
- 1984–89Grande Cretto, Gibellina
- 1963Nero Plastica
- 1980sCellotex
Interviews & Writing
- Museum-quality video search →RESEARCH QUEUEvideo
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