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The Italian artist Alberto Burri is known for his artistic research on the expressiveness of materials and particularly for his pictorial cycles more than for his sculptures. However, his expressive power is strongly manifested also in his sculptures. Burri had a strong sensitivity towards solid geometry and his sculptures are absolute works of art. In particular, the paper will investigate the first sculpture created by Burri in 1973, demolished in 1989 and then rebuilt in 2015: the Teatro Continuo created for th...

Alberto Burri is an Italian artist who worked in the post-war period; his works belong to the current called "arte informale", that is, contrary to any form. His artistic research ranges from painting to sculpture, where he always focused on the expressiveness of materials, while making his works with common materials. His career initially developed as works in separate series, where each series used a different material. This is precisely the great strength of Burri's work, as each material becomes itself the mai...