Alberto Burri Comes Back to the U.S.

The Leonard Lopate Show | Dec 18, 2015

Emily Braun, Distinguished Professor, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center, curated the exhibit “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting” at the Guggenheim. This major retrospective exhibition showcases the pioneering work of Italian artist Alberto Burri. It is the first in the U.S. in more than 35 years and the most comprehensive ever mounted. The exhibition runs through January 6th.

 

Grande bianco plastica (Large White Plastic), 1964.
(Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello/2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome)

 

Ferro SP (Iron SP), 1961.
(Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini Collezione Burri, Città di Castello/2015 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York/SIAE, Rome Photo: Antonio Idini, Soprintendenza alla Galleria nazionale d’arte moderna e c)

  

Alberto Burri in his studio in Case Nove di Morra, Città di Castello, Italy, 1982.
(Aurelio Amendola, Pistoia, Italy)

 

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