Color silkscreen print on paper "Sestante 14" made by Alberto Burri (1915-1995) in 1989. Signed in pencil lower right, numbered (no. IV/XV) lower left. It is accompanied by authentication on photo from the "Il borghetto" art house in Milan. The work was part of the "Sestante" series, consisting of sixteen different silkscreen prints. In 1982 Alberto Burri made Sestante, a large cycle of seventeen cellotex and one iron sculpture, which was exhibited from May to September the following year in the space of the former Cantieri navali della Giudecca in Venice. The evocation of the old nautical instrument, which served travelers to establish the position of a given point relative to the horizon, is a tribute to Venice's maritime destiny. The paintings are yet another challenge for Burri: in their combinations, the shapes and colors of the "sextant" create an inexhaustible cycle where there is not the slightest repetition. Within the same painting, or in the juxtaposition of one with another, the kaleidoscope of forms causes square and curvilinear structures to coexist, along with broad color fields and dense visual patterns. In 1989 the artist repurposed the cycle as a graphic work, producing the "Sextant" series. Art historian Bruno Corà has said that "in Burri's case, to speak of graphics does not mean to speak of a minor production compared to paintings, but only of a different and parallel artistic mode, in conception and execution, such in short that it can be counted with absolute prominence in the production of the great painter, alongside all his other revolutionary innovative pronouncements". The work is presented in frame.
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