Aligiero Boetti (also known as Alighiero e Boetti - Aligiero and Boetti , December 16, 1940 - February 24, 1994 ) is an Italian conceptual artist , member of the arte povera movement . He is best known for his series of "world maps," "Mappa," created between 1971 and 1994 .
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| Birth name | Alighiero fabrizio boetti |
| Date of Birth | December 16, 1940 |
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| Date of death | February 24, 1994 (53 years old) |
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| Style | conceptual art , arte povera |
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Biography
Aligiero Fabrizio Boetti was born in Turin , in the family of lawyer Corrado Boetti and cellist Adelina Marchisio. Boetti dropped out of the University of Turin's business school for the sake of art. Already in the early years he had a wide range of interests and studied theoretical works on philosophy, alchemy and esotericism. Among the favorite authors of his youth were the writer Hermann Hesse and the artist and teacher of the Bauhaus Paul Klee . Boetti was also interested in math and music.
At seventeen, Boetti discovered the work of the German artist Wols and the rugged canvases of the Italian artist Lucho Fontana . At the age of twenty, Boetti moved to Paris to study engraving. In 1962 , while in France, he met Annmarie Sozot, whom he married in 1964 and had two children - Matteo (1967) and Agatha (1972).
Boetti had a passion for eastern cultures, especially central and south Asia, and visited Afghanistan and Pakistan several times in the 1970s and 1980s .
Creativity
In the period from 1963 to 1965, Boetti began to create works from such unusual materials as hardboard, plexiglass, lamps and other industrial materials. His first solo exhibition was held in 1967 , in the Turin gallery of Christian Stein. He later took part in an exhibition at the Galleria La Bertesca in Genoa, with a group of other Italian artists whose work belongs to the art of belief .
Boetti continued to work with a wide range of materials, tools and techniques, including, for example, ballpoint pens and mail. Some of his creative strategies can be attributed to the art of belief. Boetti was interested in the correlation of randomness and order, various classification systems (grids, maps, etc.), as well as Eastern traditions and cultural practices.
An example of his work as an arte povera is Yearly Lamp (1966), a lamp in a wooden box that randomly turns on for eleven seconds every year. This work focuses on the transforming power of energy, on the possibilities and limitations of the case.
Boetti dissociated himself from the arte povera movement in the early 1970s . He renamed himself as a double character - Alighiero e Boetti (“Alighiero and Boetti”), reflecting the opposite factors presented in his work: personality and society, mistakes and perfection, order and disorder.
Boetti often collaborated with other people, artists and non-artists, giving them significant freedom of work. For example, one of the most famous works of this type consists of colored letters embroidered on canvases of different sizes, letters on closer examination are read as short phrases in Italian. For example, “order and mess” or “order is mess” and similar truisms and puns. To create these paintings, Boetti worked with embroidery craftsmen from Afghanistan and Pakistan , handing them sketches and turning over the process of choosing colors and their combinations.
Similarly, for lavori biro (painting with a ballpoint pen), he invited friends and acquaintances to paint over large areas of work with a ballpoint pen.
Boetti's most famous work is a series of large embroidered maps of the world, simply called "Mappa." The borders of each country are filled with embroidered images of the national flag of that country. Made by artisans of Afghanistan and Pakistan, the maps were the result of cooperation, where the borders of the countries corresponded to the realities of the time, and the choice of colors was left to artisans.
One of the best examples, "Mappa del Mondo, 1989" ("World Map, 1989"), is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Boetti took part in the most significant and symbolic exhibitions of his time - " When Attitudes Become Form " (1969), "Contemporanea" (Rome, 1973), "Identité Italienne" (Paris, 1981), "The Italian Metamorphosis 1943-1968" ( Guggenheim Museum, 1994). His work was shown at six Venice Biennale .
Notes
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 118852418 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.