Alberto Burri

Alberto Burri was an Italian Postwar & Contemporary painter who was born in 1915. His work is currently being shown at MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts in Rome. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Galleria Nazionale d`Arte Moderna have featured Alberto Burri’s work in the past.Alberto Burri’s work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from $175 USD to $13,184,507 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is $13,184,507 USD for SACCO E ROSSO, sold at Sotheby’s London in 2016. Alberto Burri has been featured in articles for Christie’s Daily, ArtDaily and Ocula. The most recent article is Gualandris, Aris, Albano, Kayan, Stanca, Senatore… | Our Artissima 2021 written for H A P P E N I N G in November 2021. The artist died in 1995.

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
  • Alberto Burri: Cicli Scelti – dell’opera grafica, Vistamare Benedetta Spalletti, Pescara, Italy
  • Alberto Burri, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
2016
  • Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, K21, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf, Germany
2015
  • Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Alberto Burri: Grafica, Luxembourg + Co., New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2012
  • Alberto Burri, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK
2010
  • Combustione: Alberto Burri and America, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
2008
  • Alberto Burri, de Pury & Luxembourg Gallerie, Zürich, Switzerland
2007
  • Alberto Burri, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Upper East Side, Upper East Side, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Mario Giacomelli & Alberto Burri: Fotografia e Immaginario Materico, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
  • Nero, Robilant+Voena, Paris, Paris, France
  • Around Color, Acquavella Galleries, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Lost in Italy, Luxembourg + Co., London, London, UK
2020
  • Arte Moltiplicata: Grafiche, Multipli, Libri D’artisa, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
  • Italia Minimal, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
  • Caravaggio The Contemporary, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
  • Rome – Milan: Space and Colour, Rhythm and Matter, Mazzoleni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • The Sky as a Studio. Yves Klein and his contemporaries, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
  • A distanza ravvicinata, Galleria Nazionale d`Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
  • From an Imaginary Collector, Galerie aKonzept, Berlin, Germany
2019
  • Utopia, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
  • Who’s Afraid of Drawing? Works on Paper from the Ramo Collection, Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, London, UK
  • Alberto Burri & Lucio Fontana, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • From Gesture to Form. Postwar European and American Art from the Schulhof Collection, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2018
  • Noi continuiamo l’evoluzione dell’arte, GAM, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Turin, Torino, Italy
  • Itinerari #1. Viaggio in Italia dopo gli anni ‘60, Guastalla Centro Arte, Livorno, Italy
  • Black Hole: Art and materiality from Informal to Invisible, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy
  • Lord Duveen, My Pictures Never Look So Marvellous As When You Are Here, Lévy Gorvy, London (Old Bond Str), Mayfair, London, UK
  • Polarities, TOTAH, Lower East Side, New York, USA
  • Italy – USA: Two Art Worlds connected – Post War to Pop, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Mazzoleni Summer Show 2018, Mazzoleni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Critical Dictionary, Gagosian Gallery, Paris (rue de Ponthieu), 8e, Paris, France
  • Ricognizioni #1, Guastalla Centro Arte, Livorno, Italy
  • Five Years at Nahmad Contemporary, Nahmad Contemporary, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • BOOM: Art and industry in the 60s in Italy, Tornabuoni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Roma 1950-1965, Prada Rong Zhai, Jing’an, Shanghai, China
  • Birth of a Nation. From Guttuso to Fontana and Schifano, Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
2017
  • Territory: Traces and Delimitations, Ierimonti Gallery, New York, USA
  • Artists at the Opera, Museo di Roma, Rome, Italy
  • Nuvolo and Post-War Materiality 1950-1965, Di Donna, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • LA DOLCE VITA. Avant-garde artists in post-war Rome, Tornabuoni Art, Paris, Paris, France
  • Lucio Fontana & Ico Parisi, Galleria d’Arte Maggiore, Milan, Milano, Italy
  • Continua Sphères Ensemble, Centquatre, 19e, Paris, France
  • Vincenzo Agnetti: Territories, Lévy Gorvy, New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • Paint like I move, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France
  • Summer Group Show, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, London, London, UK
  • Monochrome: A Dialogue Between Burri, Fontana, Klein, Manzoni, and Stingel, Nahmad Contemporary, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • The Red and the Black, Galleria Tega, Milan, Italy
  • MAZZOLENI 1986 – 2016: 30 Years of Art 30 Italian Artists., Mazzoleni Art, London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • Beyond Matter, Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
2016
  • Mazzoleni 1986-2016: 30 Years of Art, Mazzoleni Art, Turin, Torino, Italy
  • IT: the Italian Thing, Phillips London, Mayfair, London, UK
  • César in Context, Luxembourg + Co., New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
  • From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections, Museo di Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy
  • We Land, Repetto Gallery, Mayfair, London, UK
2015
  • Masterpieces from the Farnesina Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
  • From Picasso To Fontana: Collecting Modern And Postwar Art In The Eisendrath Years, 1960-1968, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2014
  • Bellisima, MAXXI National Museum of 21st Century Arts, Rome, Italy
  • Black | White, Mnuchin Gallery, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2013
  • Anni ’70. Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
  • Gli Anni Settanta: Arte a Roma, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Rome, Italy
  • Nero Luce, Prometeogallery, Lucca, Lucca, Italy
  • Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-1962, Museum of Contemporary Art (MCA) Chicago, Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Now Here is also Nowhere: Part II, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, USA
2012
  • From De Chirico to Cattelan: A Survey of 20th Century Italian Art, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, London, UK
  • Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2011
  • Painterly Abstraction, 1949-1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
  • Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
  • 1900–1961: Italian Art in the Guggenheim Collections, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
2010
  • Pieraccini’s Collection, Ateneum Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
  • Gesture, Scrape, Combine, Calculate: Postwar Abstraction from the Permanent Collection, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
2009
  • The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions At The 1959 Inaugural, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2007
  • GEORGE ELBERT BURR, Davidson Contemporary, Seattle, Washington, USA

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