Burri e Pistoia
a cura di Bruno Corà a cura di Bruno Corà
“There you are, I’ve got you out of trouble with my English-Castellano [dialect of Città di Castello, editor’s note].” The day of the exhibition’s opening was great. Our group arrived a bit early. The museum was still deserted and I took advantage of it to photograph Burri by himself, partly to get across the scale of the space. In alto, nella pagina a fianco e nelle pagine precedenti, la mostra che Alberto Burri tenne alla Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Monaco di Baviera, 1980 Above, facing page and previous pages, the exhibition that Alberto Burri held at the Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, 1980 CS: The architecture of the Guggenheim is very complex, especially because of its curved walls, on which it is not easy to hang pictures. Did you find it hard to convey the relationship between space and works, so important for Burri? AA: I did photograph the various sections but, in reality, it was a reportage: my inten- 158 159
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“There you are, I’ve got you out of trouble<br />
with my English-Castellano [dialect of Città<br />
di Castello, editor’s note].”<br />
The day of the exhibition’s opening was<br />
great. Our group arrived a bit early. The museum<br />
was still deserted and I took advantage<br />
of it to photograph <strong>Burri</strong> by himself, partly to<br />
get across the scale of the space.<br />
In alto, nella pagina a fianco<br />
e nelle pagine precedenti,<br />
la mostra che Alberto <strong>Burri</strong><br />
tenne alla Staatsgalerie<br />
Moderner Kunst, Monaco di<br />
Baviera, 1980<br />
Above, facing page and<br />
previous pages, the exhibition<br />
that Alberto <strong>Burri</strong> held at the<br />
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst,<br />
Munich, 1980<br />
CS: The architecture of the Guggenheim is very<br />
complex, especially because of its curved walls, on<br />
which it is not easy to hang pictures. Did you find<br />
it hard to convey the relationship between space<br />
and works, so important for <strong>Burri</strong>?<br />
AA: I did photograph the various sections<br />
but, in reality, it was a reportage: my inten-<br />
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