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BURRI Alberto, born 1915 Città di Castello (Perugia, near Arezzo), Italy - 1995 Nice, France. Italian painter. |
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| 1934-39 | Studied
medicine in Perugia. Served four years as a military doctor in North
Africa. |
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| 1945 | On
returning from prisoner of war camp in America, gave up his medical
career and started to paint full-time. |
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| 1949 | First
abstract paintings, the Catrame, in tar and oil on canvas. |
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| 1950 | Together
with Capogrossi, Ettore Colla and others, founded Gruppo Origine in
Rome. |
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| 1952 | First
sack pictures and experiments with materials such as wood, metal and
plastic. |
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| 1953-60 | Worked
as an art teacher in the USA. |
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| 1959-82 | Participation
in documenta 2 in Kassel. |
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| 1960 | Returned
to Rome. |
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| 1964 | Participation in documenta 3 in Kassel. | |||
| 1973 | First
Cretto, a clay picture the aesthetic attraction of which lies in the
cracks formed when the kaolin surface cracks open on firing. |
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| 1976 | Created
a monumental Grande Cretto Nero for the sculpure garden at the
University of California in Los Angeles. |
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| 1981 | Plans
to transform the ruins of the town of Gibellina in Sicily, destroyed by
an earthquake, into a huge Cretto. |
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| 1982 | Participation in documenta 7 in Kassel. | |||
| 1985 | Work began in 1985 but the project was abandoned in 1989. | |||
Burri was a pioneer of monochrome reduction and the transformation of pictures into 3-dimensional objects. In his works he developed an individual polymaterialistic style, combining elements of Neo-Dadaism, material Informel, Constructivism and Arte Povera. |
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