Alberto Burri, opera al nero. Cellotex 1972-1992
Exhibition Catalogue
Alberto Burri, opera al nero. Cellotex 1972-1992, curated by Bruno Corà, Galleria dello Scudo, Verona, 15 December 2012 - 31 March 2013, catalogue edited by Massimo Di Carlo and Laura Lorenzoni, essays of Maurizio Calvesi, Bruno Corà, Manuela De Leonardis, Aldo Iori, Laura Lorenzoni, Rita Olivieri and Vittorio Rubiu, catalogue of the works by Bruno Corà, bio-bibliographic equipment and research by Elena Dalla Costa.
Hardback
Size 30,7 x 24,4 x 3,1 cm
30 essays, 353 ill.
314 pages
Skira, Geneve-Milan, 2012
ISBN 978-88-572-1836-6
Artist
Alberto Burri was born in Città di Castello, near Perugia, in 1915. He graduated in Medicine in 1940 and, enlisted as a medical officer, participated in war operations in North Africa. Taken prisoner in 1943 in Tunisia by the British, he was later sent to the American concentration camp in Hereford, Texas, where he began painting. Returning to Italy, in 1946 he settled in Rome to devote himself to painting. In 1947 it was the first solo exhibition at the Gallery La Margherita di Gaspero del Corso and Irene Brin, with works still of a figurative nature. In his second solo exhibition: Bianchi e Catrami, also at the Galleria La Margherita, in May 1948, proposes abstract works for the first time. He then begins to process the first Catrami. In 1949 he made SZ1, the first printed Sacco.
