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47. CENCI E STRACCI DIVENTANO ARTE<br />

Alberto Burri (1915-1995), medico di campagna<br />

da Città di Castello in Umbria, fu catturato<br />

in nord Africa dove prestava servizio come<br />

dottore nell’esercito italiano e, prigioniero di<br />

guerra, fu portato in Texas. Per ingannare il<br />

tempo monotono della prigionia, Burri disegnò<br />

i paesaggi che lo circondavano ed al suo<br />

rientro in Italia decise che dipingere e scolpire<br />

erano la sua vera vocazione.<br />

Allestì uno studio a Roma e sviluppò il suo stile<br />

distinto, creando composizioni astratte con<br />

stracci e sacchi colorati di nero e di rosso, che<br />

gli diedero un rapido successo. Dai suoi Sacchi<br />

passò a lavori in legno e plastica bruciati,<br />

lamine di metallo, creta e cellotex, che lo collocarono<br />

all’avanguardia del mondo <strong>art</strong>istico<br />

internazionale.<br />

Tra gli <strong>art</strong>isti romani, i suoi amici più stretti<br />

erano Capogrossi, Colla, Afro, Scialoja e<br />

Melotti. Rimase comunque fedele alle sue<br />

radici umbre, tornandoci regolarmente, specie<br />

per la caccia agli scoiattoli, e lasciò un gran<br />

numero di sue opere a Città di Castello, nel<br />

Palazzo Albini e in un vasto ex capannone dei<br />

tabacchi.<br />

Roma, 1962<br />

106<br />

RAGS AND TATTERS INTO ART<br />

A war prisoner in Texas, having been captured in<br />

North Africa where he was serving in the Medical<br />

Corps of the Italian Army, Alberto Burri (1915-<br />

1995) was a country doctor from the small town<br />

of Città di Castello in Umbria. To wile away the<br />

monotonous days of incarceration he painted the<br />

landscapes around him, and on his return to<br />

Italy decided that painting and sculpting were<br />

his true vocation.<br />

He set up a studio in Rome and developed his own<br />

distinctive style of abstract compositions, with<br />

rags and bits of sacking colored black and red,<br />

which soon made him famous. From his Sacchi<br />

he went on to scorched wood and plastic, metalplate,<br />

clay and cellotex works that placed him in<br />

the vanguard of the international <strong>art</strong> world.<br />

Among the <strong>art</strong>ists in Rome, his closest friends were<br />

Capogrossi, Colla, Afro, Scialoja and Melotti. He<br />

remained loyal to his Umbrian roots, however,<br />

returning home regularly, especially for squirrel<br />

shooting, and left a large number of his creations<br />

to Città di Castello, now to be seen at the Palazzo<br />

Albini and in a vast former tobacco shed.<br />

Rome, 1962

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