BurriRavennaOro

From 14 October 2023 to 14 January 2024, the MAR – Ravenna Art Museum, as part of the 8th Biennial of Contemporary Mosaic, presents BurriRavennaOro: an important monographic exhibition dedicated to Alberto Burri, curated by Bruno Corà, hosted in the rooms on the first and second floors of the museum.
The exhibition traces the intense relationship that Burri had with Ravenna between the late 1980s and the 1990s. Conceiving several cycles of works inspired by the city’s history and artistic culture, Burri, in one of his last series, embodies and transfigures in the contrast of black and gold, darkness and light, the dialogue between the late antique and Byzantine mosaics of Ravenna. A balance between spirituality and materiality, in which the glorious vestiges of the past have gradually become intertwined with the productive and industrial developments of the present.
A multimedia area concerning Burri’s biography and some films documenting the artist at work, together with the exhibition catalogue, with critical essays and documents of the works exhibited at the MAR, allow for a broader knowledge of one of the greatest European artists of the second half of the 20th century.