Comments on: Pave the Planet: San Suzie reports on Alberto Burri’s land art installation in Sicily.

By: Ten Days in Sicily for AAR Fellows, with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens « Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome Weblog

Sat, 27 Mar 2010 16:57:10 +0000

[...] (with its dazzling Norman cathedral), the group took in Gibellina Vecchia (Alberto Burri’s moving monument to the victims of the 1968 earthquake), the Doric temple and Hellenistic theater at Segesta, then [...]

By: chrissie mayo

chrissie mayo — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:22:18 +0000

From a distance this is reminicent of vast areas I have seen in places like the Canaries, that are covered in plastic sheeting for horticultural purposes. Like viewing a Christo I am both amazed and appalled at the same time, but then a Christo is not forever.
I can’t help feeling that a considerable ammount of wild life and natural vegetation would have been destroyed in the making of Cretto, which goes against the grain of most artists thinking. I am sure this work would not have been allowed in the eco-friendly 21st century ! ?

By: celso

celso — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:21:32 +0000

By: Stefano Pasquini

Stefano Pasquini — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:07:55 +0000

Check it out on google: http://tiny.cc/jQuCI

By: Fab

Fab — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:10:09 +0000

Another work about concrete and Sicily by Italian artists’ group Alterazioni Video
http://www.alterazionivideo.com/new_sito_av/videos/intervallo-iPhone.m4v