In Lugano Burri and Prampolini confront each other on the subject – Mondo – Arte.it

World – On the one hand the white, on the other black. In the middle, research into the subject in his several expressive methods, to give the fears of a complex historical period, which creates all his violence and transgressive indictment.
There are the most inapplicable materials, from the sponge to cork, which more and more limit the space, first dominated by painting, an expression of an disobedience of Enrico Prampolini to traditional techniques, and there is the modest and raw material of Alberto Burri, which replaces the color, emptied from a possible metaphor. A result resulting from the search for a new language, undertaken by Burri in the aftermath of the Second World War, lived firsthand as a medical officer, prisoner in Africa and then to Hereford in Texas, and who became an independent artist.
The fall of the Olgiati collection is dominated by research into the subject, investigated in his several expressive methods. “Prampolini Burri. Van de Zaak” It is the title of the path that from September 21 to January 11, the two artists protagonists of a project set up by Mario Botta, published by Gabriella Belli and Bruno Corà, organized in collaboration with the Burri Foundation of Città di Castello in Lugano.

From the powerful and polyimateric works of Prampolini to the powerful of Burri, the 50 masterpieces that are exhibited come from prestigious international public and private collections. As a prampolini – eclectic futurist and contact with the most important European avant -garde – all the potential of polygrades in 1914, Burri, who represents the second half of the twentieth century in the exhibition, proposes the case in the most radical poetic key.

“The Streets Undertaken by Prampolini and Burri, With Concepttuaxy Different Trajectories and Meanings – Explain Gabriella Belli and Bruno Corà – Show Possible Ways, Certainly Not The Only Ones, But Certainly the Mostum, Giving Medstood, Giving Morthe’s, Giving Morte data, Give Morte MortoTaTaTa -old tradition, rely on something else, cut back and glue, to dig in the lands, use plastics, packets, packets, burn, add objects, and much more.

Alberto Burri, Plastic Red, 1962, plastic, acrylic, vinavil, canvas combustion, 100 x 81 cm, private collection © Palazzo Albizzini Foundation Burri Collection, Città di Castello, 2025, Prolitteris, Zurich

To welcome the research in the two different, but dominant, visions of the subject of Prampolini and Burri will be a radical exhibition space, conceived for the occasion by Mario Botta in two later and divorced moments, by antithetic chromatic choices: white walls to welcome the works of Prampolini, completely black for Burri Works.

Under the creations of Prampolini to be seen in Lugano, Interview with the subjectAn authentic manifesto from 1930 that inaugurates the most sensitive visionary and cosmic phase of production. Non -published metamorphosis of the forms that are open in works such as Venus -mechanics1930, or the beautiful Aerodynamic geometry1934-1935, while Forces forces in space From 1932 is a powerful representation of alien worlds that are dominated by the geometry between new psychological forces of organic forms.
The last polimateric paintings that can be seen in Lugano date from the 1950s, such as Abstract composition CR1954.

With his intuitive views, Burri remains far from the theoretization of Prampolini. The exhibition in Lugano presents various works, from the cycles of the early years, to CompositionsAi Catramas From the years 1948-1950 to To failMasterpieces that bring the art of the master to a definitive material dimension.
After the experiments with the most diverse materials – from tar to pumice, from gold to chalk – the artist uses fire in the forming action of the work. The work to be seen, including Plastic and plastic red1962, are the results of a continuous intervention performed by the artist with the flame dispenser on the canvas, plastic and vinavil or aluminum in hand, while attacking and opens and opens gates, central areas and hems, which reveals an unknown material area.
But it is by the famous Cricks That burri moves to the effect of earth, air and water. A new manifestation of material spatiality takes place in rare works of the 1970s, such as Black black cretto1972, or in Cretto White C11973 Cellotex1980, E Black and gold1993.
This wooden connection, used in the industrial field, in the hands of Burri, comes to see the size of silence, darkness, emptiness, complete and absence, all new aesthetic coordinates that will influence some of the most advanced subsequent research.
The exhibition, with free access, can be visited from Thursday to Sunday from 11 to 18.