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.
[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.
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".