Theater
Die Renaissance von Alberto Burris "Teatro Continuo"
“It really is the bare bones of a theatre but I think it has the essential.” Alberto Burri is one of the few Italian artists to have built bridges with the USA, following his imprisonment for non co-operation in Hereford (Texas) in 1943. He wrote the above words at the bottom of an axonometric sketch with the look of a doctor’s prescription, the fall-out from a profession never practised.
Then came his Teatro Continuo in the “Contatto Arte-Città” section of the XV Milan Triennale (1973), conjuring up memories of Paul Valéry’s Le Cimetière marin (1920) and Eugenio Montale’s Ossi di seppia (1925; translated as Cuttlefish Bones); that is to say, a continuation in time to Burri’s Grande Cretto, created in Gibellina, Sicily, between 1984 and 1989. We might perhaps substitute the word “theatre” with “city”: “It really is the bare bones of a city but I think it has the essential.” – so essential, indeed, that it has been transposed a thousand times to a theatre set, confirming once again the founding dialogue between the theatre and the city.
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