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Alberto Burri, was an Italian painter, sculptor and physician. He is one of the most important post-war italian artists of Contemporary art and artistic movements like Neo-Dada, Nouveau réalisme, postminimalism and Arte Povera
Alberto Burri (12 March 1915 – 13 February 1995), Italian pronunciation: [alˈbÉ›rto buˈri]; was an Italian painter, sculptor and physician. He is one of the most important post-war italian artists of Contemporary art and artistic movements like Neo-Dada, Nouveau réalisme, postminimalism and Arte Povera. In one of his very rare statements, Burri claimed that the critics’ words, as well as his own, were of no use in offering a description of his artworks, affirming that its only real key strength was the formal balance that poor and industrial materials were surprisingly able to give. Burri’s artistic research became personal in short time, between 1948 and 1950 he began experimenting with using unusual, ‘unorthodox’ materials such as tar, sand, zinc, pumice, and Aluminium dust as well as Polyvinyl chloride glue, this last material being elevated to the same importance as oil colors. During this artistic transition, the painter showed his sensitivity to the mixed-media type of abstraction of Enrico Prampolini, a central figure in Italian Abstract art. Nonetheless Burri went one step further in his Catrami (Tars), presenting tar not as a simple collage material, but as an actual color which – by way of different lucid and opaque shades in monochrome black–, blended itself with the totality of the painting.
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