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Lot Essay
“Le materie sintetiche non hanno mai avuto una forma, le macchine le producono come quantità pura, senza qualità. Con esse non c’è più conflitto, ma antitesi: solo un processo insieme logico e assurdo può convertire la quantità in qualità. Il mondo procede verso la quantificazione totale, Burri in senso inverso. Non loda il Signore per sora Plastica e frate Cellotex, non scorge nell’industria petrolchimica il dito della provvidenza: per forza d’antitesi la sua forma diventa tanto più tersa ed esatta, più spirituale, quanto più è amorfa, quantitativa la materia”.
“Synthetic materials have never had a shape, machines produce them as pure quantities, without quality. With them there is no longer conflict, but antithesis: only a process that is both logical and absurd can convert quantity into quality. The world proceeds towards total quantification, Burri in the opposite direction. He does not praise the Lord for Sora Plastics and Frate Cellotex, he does not perceive the finger of providence in the petrochemical industry: by the force of antithesis his form becomes clearer and more exact, more spiritual, just as the material itself becomes increasingly amorphous and quantitative”.
-Giulio Carlo Argan
“Synthetic materials have never had a shape, machines produce them as pure quantities, without quality. With them there is no longer conflict, but antithesis: only a process that is both logical and absurd can convert quantity into quality. The world proceeds towards total quantification, Burri in the opposite direction. He does not praise the Lord for Sora Plastics and Frate Cellotex, he does not perceive the finger of providence in the petrochemical industry: by the force of antithesis his form becomes clearer and more exact, more spiritual, just as the material itself becomes increasingly amorphous and quantitative”.
-Giulio Carlo Argan