MAPEI recently renewed its relationship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation through a contribution to the retrospective Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting. The exhibition of the works of the Italian postwar innovator opened on October 9, 2015, and runs until January 6, 2016, at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York.
Burri, who became famous for the particular technique of collage and assemblage that he adopted in the realization of his works, used Vinavil polyvinyl acetate (PVA) as an adhesive (as shown in a large painting located in the station of Santa Maria Novella in Florence), as well as a glossy surface finish.
