Alberto Burri

A Bruit Secret & Pandora’s Box — The secret sound of painting

San Lorenzo church, Poppi ·
Alberto Burri portrait

Alberto Burri — Fresco portrait by Fabrizio Ruggiero
A Bruit Secret & Pandora’s Box · San Lorenzo Arte, Poppi (2010)

The colours of substance, the substance of colours.

Burri’s material poetics is evoked here as a meditation on matter itself — on the way colour becomes substance, and substance becomes meaning. Within the site-specific installation, the portrait functions as an ethical effigy of transformation.

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