Nitsch. Homage. Città di Castello. Burri. Castello. Milan I have just returned from Città di Castello, where I inaugurated a selection of works by Luca Alinari and stayed in the city for two days, just enough time to meet my friend Bruno Corà and have a stroll through the magnificent secular cathedral that is the Essiccatoi, where tobacco used to be dried; a former industrial area, which instead of being abandoned, as happens to so many others, has become a great museum of Burri. More than a visit, it was an emotional, spectacular pilgrimage, the kind that makes you instinctively understand the true essence of a genius, even without being able to “translate” it into comprehension. And that's fine, but one must recognise that the ineffable exists (and how it exists), the ineffable of an imagination that is a monad, which must be taken as it is. And that's not insignificant. Indeed, it is an immense enrichment. In the meantime, I inaugurated an exhibition by Liliana Malta, grand works of an immense conceptual universe dedicated to the eternal myth that connects our human dawn with poignant current events.
But it doesn’t end there; a retrospective exhibition in Milan, from 2015, of the work Hermann Nitsch dedicated to Burri, *Homage to Alberto Burri*, is being revived, alongside other works that constitute a true anatomical theatre, where one can witness, in the body of the one (Nitsch), the metaphysics of the other (Burri); two grand diversities, of the kind that asked no permission to take centre stage in our disjointed modernity, using the multifaceted machine of abstract expressionism as a place for unifying the beautiful with the sublime, without winking, without recourse to conceptual scales, but rather breaking free from all pedagogical, syntactic, structural forms, to act with the passion of the new, of the event, which does not follow words, signs, or fantasies, but precedes them, establishing an ethical position that transcends aesthetics, suspending the work between life and death. It is amongst us. Amongst us.
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