Alberto Burri (1915-1995)

'The object which Burri composes is a painting or, if one prefers, the fiction of a painting, a sort of reversed trompe-l'oeil in which it is not the painting that simulates reality but reality that simulates the painting' (G. C. Argan, quoted in F. Pirani, ‘Notes on the Critical Vicissitudes of Alberto Burri’, in Burri 1915-1995: Retrospektive, exh. cat., Rome, 1996, p. 131).