Alighiero Boetti

📖 The Scoop

Second volume in the Boetti catalogue raisonne, an artist who, to begin with, associated himself with the Arte Povera movement, looks at the crucial period when his work took the form of conceptual poetry. An artist who loved experimenting with new materials, from 1971, Alighiero Boetti commissioned some Afghan embroiderers to work on his most famous series, entitled 'Mappe' (Maps). This and other works executed in the 'seventies highlight some of the fundamental concepts underlying his work: multiplicity, diversity and repetition. It was between 1972, the year in which he decided to insert an 'E' between his name and surname to draw attention to the dual nature of his identity, and 1979, that Boetti created his most important works. This is the period covered in this book. The catalogue will take the form of 4 volumes, curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, in conjunction with the Alighiero Boetti Archive. Boetti is in the process of winning even greater international acclaim, thanks to a travelling retrospective exhibition of his work entitled 'Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan'. After a spell at the Reina Sofia in Madrid, the show will be transferred to the Tate Modern in London and, finally, the MoMA in New York. Boetti will also feature in many exhibitions being planned for the near future, including 'Documenta 13', curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev. Text in English and Italian.

Genre: Art / Conceptual (fancy, right?)