ALBERTO BURRI 

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Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello in 1915 and he died in Nice in 1995. 

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At the beginning, Burri was working as a doctor but during the Second World War he became the artist known nowadays. 

In the Hereford Prison Camp, in Texas, he developed a passion for art. 

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His first works were presented in 1948 and determined the artist’s transition from figurative to informal art, abandoning definitively the images of his memory. 

In January 1952 a personal exhibition was held at the Obelisk Gallery: in this occasion his first works were presented. These pieces of art were criticized in the following years for their excessive avant-gardistic nature. Starting from 1948-49, Burri began the long period of experimentation that definitively changed his career until he became the informal artist we know today. 

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His artistic career is defined by more varied materials that give life to real series, such as: mold, tar, sacks, combustions, plastics, irons, cellotex and cretti. 

 

The artist proposes violence through the use of innovative artistic techniques such as tear old bags and attach them to the canvas or burn plastic, iron and wood thus giving life to the Combustioni.