Alberto Burri, Grande Cretto, Gibellina, Italy, 1984-1989 | 2015 VS William Nicholson, The Hill above Harlech, 1917

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Alberto Burri, Grande Cretto, Gibellina, Italy, 1984-1989 | 2015 VS William Nicholson, The Hill above Harlech, 1917

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Alberto Burri, “Cretto di Burri” (Great Cretto), 1985-2015, Gibellina, Italy,
Along with six other villages in the Belice Valley, the historic center of Gibellina was destroyed in an earthquake on January 15, 1968, killing at least 200, injuring around 1,150, and leaving over 98,000 homeless. Over the years that followed, a new city, Nuova Gibellina, was constructed more than 20 km from its previous location, where mayor Ludovico Corrao called upon numerous Architects and Artists to help with reconstruction efforts. Among these creatives was Alberto Burri.
Work on the Cretto of Burri finally began in 1985 and was stopped in 1989, covering nearly 60,000 m² of the 80,000 m² lot. 30 years later, in May of 2015, the piece was finally completed as Burri had imagined it, just two decades after his passing in February of 1995. Beginning as a piece of public art, the intent was to construct a communal identity for local residents and Italians as a whole, crafting a monument reflecting profound cultural and social values.
Under those very same ideals, the Great Cretto of Gibellina Museum was opened in May 2019, commissioned by the city’s administration led by Salvatore Sutera, and ideated and curated by the Assessor of Culture, Tanino Bonifacio. “The Cretto is a place for narration and knowledge where life once flourished, now conserving its memory: what was once a tabernacle of death, today welcomes a monument generating life,” Bonifacio told Artribune.
The museum, situated in the old Church of Santa Caterina just 300 meters from the Cretto, was the only building to have survived the earthquake and is born from the need to recount the origins, the design, and the realization of Burri’s work.
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Alberto Burri, Grande Cretto, 1984-89
Noto ricostruita dopo il terremoto del 1689. Il Cretto di Burri dove, sotto i blocchi di cemento vi sono i resti delle case crollate di Gibellina, distrutte dal terremoto del 1968
Noto rebuilt after the earthquake of 1689. The Cretto di Burri where under the concrete blocks there are the remains of the collapsed houses of Gibellina, destroyed by the earthquake of 1968.
È già successo migliaia di volte, con la terra che tremando ha cancellato migliaia di vite a ribadire la fragilità del soffio divino che ha dato vita alla terra di cui siamo fatti.
È successo, succede, anche qui in Sicilia dove d’improvviso una notte è diventa per sempre e vite, legami, sorrisi, sguardi, rabbie e speranze sono stati cancellati in pochi secondi, per diventare parte del nulla, un nulla senza memoria o futuro. E questo non una volta, ma tante volte quante sono le vite di mille uomini.
Abbiamo affidato all’arte il senso di quel nulla, perché l’arte è eterna, è il riassunto delle anime che in essa trovano vita e respiro nella continuità dell’essere.
L’arte è diventata la splendida figlia tangibile della distruzione, la nuova luce nelle tenebre eterne, la ribellione al male, l’altare del ricordo, il vento inarrestabile che porta il lievito della vita. È lei che prega per noi, che ricorda chi la terra ha masticato e chi alla terra è sopravvissuto rinascendo nel dolore, ribelle alla morte. Con l’arte abbiamo riscritto la vita e ne abbiamo santificato il senso, rendendola memoria e speranza per tutti perché le lacrime si asciugano ed i pianti si spengo ma eterna, resta solo la bellezza a ricordare, e ricordando vincere, il nulla.
It has already happened thousands of times, with the earth shaking and wiping out thousands of lives to reaffirm the fragility of the divine breath that gave life to the earth we are made of. It happened, it happens, even here in Sicily where suddenly one night becomes forever and lives, ties, smiles, looks, anger and hopes were erased in a few seconds, to become part of nothingness, a nothingness without memory or future . And this not once, but as many times as the lives of a thousand men. We have entrusted the sense of that nothingness to art, because art is eternal, it is the summary of the souls that find life and breath in it in the continuity of being. Art has become the splendid tangible daughter of destruction, the new light in eternal darkness, the rebellion against evil, the altar of remembrance, the unstoppable wind that brings the leaven of life. It is she who prays for us, who remembers who chewed the earth and who survived the earth by being reborn in pain, rebel against death. With art we have rewritten life and we have sanctified its meaning, making it memory and hope for everyone because the tears dry up and the crying fades away but eternal, only beauty remains to remember, and remembering to win, nothingness.
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Occhio sul Cretto di Burri, opera di Land Art realizzata da Alberto Burri
Occhio sul Cretto di Burri, opera di Land Art realizzata da Alberto Burri
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