But they
reveal some formative influences, besides the obvious de Kooning: Cézanne and Brancusi, who appear in quick, muscular pencil portraits, and James Joyce, whose
poetry collection «Chamber Music» is the subject of a pen - and - ink and watercolor series.
Drawing on a number of important public and private
collections in Italy and the United Kingdom, including Tate Modern and the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, this exhibition
reveals Burri's extraordinary ability to conjure
poetry — and a powerful sense of monumentality — from the simplest and roughest of materials.