Cretto di Burri Land Art a Gibellina, Sicilia. Costruito nel 1989 in cima alle rovine della città rasata dopo il devastante sisma di Belice del 1968

>
> The Cretto di Burri is the largest Italian land art work (80,000 square meters) created by Alberto Burri between 1984 and 1989 in the city of Gibellina (TP)
>
> “When I saw the place I almost wanted to cry and immediately the idea came to me: look, I feel like I could do something here. I would do this: we compact the rubble that is a problem for everyone, we reinforce it well, and with the cement we make an immense white crack, so that it remains an everlasting reminder of this event.”
>
> —————————————————
>
> The Grande Cretto Gibellina is the largest work created by Alberto Burri, it extends over a surface of 86,000 square meters above the rubble of the town of Gibellina (Trapani) destroyed by the catastrophic earthquake that hit the Valle del Belice in January 1968.
>
> In 1980, Burri and other well-known artists on the international contemporary scene were invited to Gibellina Nuova by the Honorable Ludovico Corrao, mayor of the city, to create works to donate to the new town, rebuilt about 20 kilometers from the original site. The Maestro accepted the invitation but preferred to intervene on the ruins of the old town, planning to cover the rubble of a large part of the town with a jet of white concrete, gathered in blocks and held together by metal nets (with a maximum height of 160 cm), leaving the cracks that follow the main roads of the pre-existing urban layout passable.
>
> The construction of this imposing work, begun in 1985 and interrupted in 1989, reaching 66,000 square meters, was completed in 2015 on the occasion of the Centenary of Burri’s Birth according to his project and his will.
>
>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretto_di_Burri

Studied it at the architecture university, the entire class was disgusted. The professor was sweating trying to justify this slab of concrete over an otherwise amazing landscape. Ended up changing the slide.

And the fun part is that it’s also falling apart due to lack of maintenance…

I believe if you try to pull out something like that now they will come search you at home

Out of all the things he could have chosen, he went with a massive slab of concrete

Costly and against nature

The only thing I know about this place is that STORROR did parkour hide and seek here.

The landscape is beautiful.

That’s a waste of concrete

What a waste of space.

Honestly looks pretty cool. Would be an insanely cool place to film a maze chase scene during a horror movie.

I hate this. We feel like we have to put something everywhere. Put a single monument, if anything at all, and return it to nature otherwise.

I was unaware that this existed. This is fucking ridiculous

What a monstrosity.

It’s a bar of Tony’s