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| Il Grande Cretto | |
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| Artist | Alberto Burri |
| Year | 1984–2015 |
| Type | Concrete sculpture |
| Dimensions | 1.50 m × 350 m × 280 m (4.9 ft × 1,150 ft × 920 ft) |
| Location | Gibellina, Sicily |
The Cretto di Burri (crack of Burri) or Cretto di Gibellina (crack of Gibellina), also known as "Il Grande Cretto (The Great Crack)", is a landscape artwork undertaken by Alberto Burri in 1984 and left unfinished in 1989 (due to lack of funds),[1][2] based on the old city of Gibellina in North West Sicilly. The original city of Gibellina was completely destroyed in the 1968 Belice earthquake.[3] Gibellina has since been rebuilt, about 20 km from the city's original location. In 2015, to mark what would have been Burri's one hundredth birthday, the work was finally completed.[4] In the same year Dutch artist Petra Noordkamp made a film about 'Il Grande Cretto di Gibellina' for the retrospective of Alberto Burri (from October 2015 - January 2016) at the Guggenheim Museum in New York commissioned by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.
In 2023 the Cretto hosted the closure of the 42nd edition of the "Orestiadi" festival, with the music of Italian songwriter Mario Venuti. The Orestiadi of 2023 saw a record in spectators. [5]
The Cretto is also the subject of the theatrical show "I-TIGI a Gibellina" and its video transposition "I-TIGI Canto per Ustica" by the Italian stage actor, theater director, dramaturge and author Marco Paolini. Shot entirely within the Cretto di Burri in the year 2000, it's the story of the DC9 ITAVIA, which sank in the waters of Ustica in June 1980, and the reconstruction of the long investigation conducted by the Italian judge Rosario Priore. The author declared that he choose the Cretto because "it is a sort of concrete labyrinth, which, seen from above, is similar to the maze of lies in which the judges had to orient themselves to find the thread of the investigation".[6]
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- Documentary dedicated to the Grande Cretto, video produced in 2023 by art critic and curator dr Alain Chivilò
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