Monday, January 9, 2017
314 Royce Hall, UCLA
Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden, UCLA
Italian Cultural Institute, Los Angeles
The 40th Anniversary of Alberto Burri’s Grande Cretto Nero (The Large Black Crack), UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden 1977/2017
The Large Black Crack, a work of colossal proportions (49 x 16 feet), composed of 700 pieces of baked ceramic transported from Alberto Burri’s home town and assembled at the UCLA Sculpture Garden, represents an uncanny fusion of the visual arts and architecture while performing a concrete function at the heart of the university. Its gifting to UCLA commemorates Burri’s choice to inaugurate his great American traveling exhibition of 1977 precisely at the university. The wall offers an imposing symbol of the artist’s choice to reside in Los Angeles during the winters of the last thirty years of his life.
For more information about this event, please visit the event website or contact the organizers at harrison@humnet.ucla.edu
Cost : Free and open to the public.
Sponsor(s): Center for European and Russian Studies, Art History, The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, Italian, Italian Cultural Institute of Los Angeles, Burri Foundation - Italy, UCLA College of Letters & Science - Division of Humanities