New York – Alberto Burri is the protagonist of a major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, open in New York until January 6. The exhibition “Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting”, realized with the support of Lavazza, is the main event to celebrate the centenary of the artist, born on the 12 March 1915 in Città di Castello, and died February 13, 1995 in Nice. 100 works from the late 1940s to the last years of Burri’s life will be on display, chosen by the curator Emily Braun in collaboration with the Fondazione Palazzo Albizzini – Burri Collection of Citta di Castello, which lent 40 works. Ample space is given to “Cellotex”, made at the end of the 1970s. The exhibition aims to re-read the role of Burri in the relationship with the US. The Umbrian artist began to paint as a prisoner of war in Texas in 1943 -45 (he was one of the Italian military men captured in Africa by the British), and then held in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles his first exhibitions starting 1953. In 1955, Burri married an American woman, Minsa Craig, and from 1063 began to spend long periods in Los Angeles, alternating them to stays in Città di Castello. (9Colonne)
