Burri's Great Cretto of Gibellina stars for the first time in an exhibition in Rome

Opening on March 23, 2019, the exhibition entitled La ferita della bellezza. Alberto Burri and the Grande Cretto di Gibellina: starring at the Museo Carlo Bilotti Aranciera in Villa Borghese, Rome, will be for the first time, until June 9, 2019, the world ’s largest work of Land Art. It is the Great Cretto of Gibellina, a work created in the 1980s by Alberto Burri, when the artist was commissioned to design an intervention for the reconstruction of the town destroyed by the earthquake in the Belice Valley in 1968, thus making a work on the rubble of the town of Gibellina.
The plan of the old Gibellina was covered with a white shroud, a large concrete cast.

The Land Art work was photographed by Aurelio Amendola: his black-and-white shots of the Grande Cretto, taken twice in 2011 and 2018, can be seen by the public.

Also within the exhibition itinerary is Petra Noordkamp ’s video of Burri’s great work immersed in the surrounding landscape; the video was produced and presented in 2015 by the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

The exhibition is sponsored by Roma Capitale, Assessorato alla Crescita culturale - Sovrintendenza Capitolina ai Beni Culturali with a loan from the Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma and is curated by Massimo Recalcati with scientific coordination by Alessandro Sarteanesi.

For info: www.museocarlobilotti.it

Hours: from March 23 to May 31, 2019
Tuesday to Friday and holidays (Easter Monday) from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.
June 1 to 9, 2019
Tuesday through Friday and holidays from 1 to 7 p.m.; Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Closed Mondays.

After the Rome stop, the exhibition will be remounted from June 2019 to October 2019 at MAG Museo Alto Garda in Riva del Garda in collaboration with MART Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto.

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Burri's Great Cretto of Gibellina stars for the first time in an exhibition in Rome

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