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