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Some magical photos taken on the occasion<br />

seem, unfortunately, to have vanished into<br />

the depths of the Celle archives.<br />

Alberto <strong>Burri</strong>, Mauro<br />

Polverosi, Mario Vannetti e<br />

Giuliano Gori nel piazzale<br />

antistante il cancello della<br />

Villa intenti a studiare<br />

l’installazione del Grande<br />

Ferro Celle di <strong>Burri</strong><br />

Alberto <strong>Burri</strong>, Mauro<br />

Polverosi, Mario Vannetti and<br />

Giuliano Gori in the area in<br />

front of the gate of the villa<br />

studying the installation of<br />

<strong>Burri</strong>’s Celle Big Iron<br />

GRANDE FERRO CELLE – Ever since<br />

the beginning of the eighties I had thought<br />

it necessary to realize a work that, as well as<br />

serving as a symbol of the collection of environmental<br />

art at Celle, would also become<br />

the point of reference of the entrance for visitors.<br />

At the time the public road, in front of<br />

the gate of the Fattoria di Celle, was a repository<br />

for all kinds of filth, garbage dumped<br />

mostly at night by persons unknown into a<br />

sort of large pit at the bottom of which ran<br />

a small watercourse. Thus the location of a<br />

disegnasse l’urbanistica di come era stata<br />

la Città prima del sisma.<br />

Personalmente ero già stato a Gibellina e<br />

non potevo non condividere il sentimento<br />

espresso dall’artista, ho così poi seguito<br />

quasi tutte le fasi dell’operazione<br />

attraverso le notizie che riuscivo a raccogliere<br />

dagli amici di Città di Castello ed<br />

anche di tanto in tanto dallo stesso <strong>Burri</strong>.<br />

Cinque lunghi anni di lavoro, tonnellate<br />

di cemento bianco per coprire un’area<br />

di 90.000 mq, conclusasi nel 1989, e<br />

Una fase dell’installazione<br />

del Grande Ferro Celle sulla via<br />

Montalese davanti all’ingresso<br />

della Villa<br />

A stage in the installation<br />

of the Celle Big Iron on Via<br />

Montalese in the front of the<br />

entrance to the villa<br />

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