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 ALBERTO BURRI(Citta' di Castello 1915 - Beaulieu 1955 )
A military physician, he was captured by the Americans during World War II. He began to paint in a prison camp in Texas, using whatever supports he could find. Returning to Italy, he settled in Rome, abandoning the medical profession to dedicate himself to painting. His first sack-cloth compositions date from 1952. Laying aside his brushes, Burri began to work as a fortuitous tailor, surgeon, patcher and mender. His compositions won international acclaim. Subsequently he worked with wood, burned plastic, iron bars; and then added the cycle of the Cracks. Figurative illusions are not lacking in his compositions. Burri seems to have amused himself by evoking pictorial images just while refusing to paint. It may be more useful, however, to view the artist's work in the light of the activity involved, the fervor of construction, than to seek in it recollections of tradition and the museum.
(From "Italian Art" Edited by Gloria Fossi, Giunti).
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