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⚽ Italia ’90 Original Vintage Poster | Alberto Burri | 100 x 70cm | Plakat
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⚽ Italia ’90 – 1990 – Original Poster by Alberto Burri (Petruzzi Editore, Italy)
Roman antiquity meets the global game in stark photomontage
| Offset lithograph | 100 × 70 cm | Italy
🎬 Introduction
Alberto Burri distills the spectacle of the 1990 FIFA World Cup into a single, surgical gesture. A high-contrast aerial photograph of Rome fills the sheet, with the Colosseum commanding the composition. Across the top, spare sans-serif type states “ITALIA 90.” At the amphitheater’s center, a black disc overlays a schematic football pitch in crisp white lines—an incisive intervention that fuses imperial ruin with modern sport. The ascetic black-and-white palette and immaculate geometry lend the poster a photographic gravitas rare in event graphics.
A leading figure of Italian postwar art, Burri applies his rigorous formal economy to mass communication without diluting his voice. The result reads as both announcement and conceptual image: a coolly analytical photomontage that treats the World Cup not as mascot or merchandise, but as a contemporary ritual inscribed onto Rome’s most charged monument.
✨ Why It Matters
Commissioned for the Italia ’90 tournament and published by Petruzzi Editore, this poster sits at the nexus of international sport, Italian modern art, and late-20th-century graphic design. It is an uncommon instance of a major fine artist authoring a World Cup poster, executed pre-digitally at B1 scale. For collectors, it offers genuine crossover appeal—football culture, Italian postwar art, and photographic poster design—while the large 70 × 100 cm format is prized and less often encountered in such strong condition.
📐 Poster Details
• Year: 1990
• Country: Italy
• Size: 100 × 70 cm
• Studio / Publisher: Petruzzi Editore
• Designer: Alberto Burri
🔎 Condition
Very good vintage condition, presenting near-new. Crisp black-and-white impression with clean margins; frames beautifully with strong wall presence.
Specifications
ConditionExcellentColorsWhiteMaterialPaperNumber of items1OrientationPortraitArt sizeLargeHeight100 cmWidth70 cm
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Berlin, GermanyOn Whoppah since August 2023 • 10 sales