Alighiero boetti biography of martin

Alighiero Fabrizio Boetti was born on 16 December, at 5 Corso Trento in the Crocetta district of Turin.

A prominent member of the Italian conceptual art movement Arte Povera, Alighiero Boetti became famous for his colorful, woven grids of letters.

Alighiero Boetti was born in Turin, in Italy's industrial north, in 1940.

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The busy rhythms of work in the previous years, when AB produced drawings on paper while delegating embroideries and ballpoints to others, gave way to a period mainly of promotion and exhibitions. He was represented at various important solo and group shows, above all in Europe.

Inauguration of “I magiciens de la terre” at the Center Georges Pompidou in Paris. AB with Sufi Barang and Esther Mahlangu, courtesy André Magnin

On 12 January, in Brussels, at the Galerie Lucien Bilinelli: opening of the solo exhibition “Alighiero e Boetti” with a number of embroideries of large dimensions (principally those with structured cruciform inscriptions in black and white) and Tutto, a series also now made in Peshawar.
For the occasion, the artist wrote the gallery owner:

“Dear Lucien, to avoid dispelling my efforts and diluting myself I need to keep still and then set off again to new places and feel the wind separated by the tip of my nose and then my cheekbones and ears and the hiss growing stronger and then fading in the distance and being dispelled and diluted.”

On 21 March, the Edward Totah Gallery in London presented a solo exhibition titled “Alighiero e Boetti,” with particular prominence being given to the polyptych Cartoline astratte, made up of nine colorful

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Alighiero e Boetti Day

Artissima e Fondazione Nicola Trussardi

Auditorium RAI, Torino
Saturday, May 28, 2011

Afghan women working on an Alighiero Boetti embroidery From the book "Boetti by Afghan People", RAM Publications, September 2011 Photo © Randi Malkin Steinberger Courtesy Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

Alighiero Boetti working in his studio in Rome From the book "Boetti by Afghan People", RAM Pubblications, September 2011 Photo © Randi Malkin Steinberger Courtesy Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

“Peshawar”, April 1993 Pakistani men working on a kilim for the show "Alighiero Boetti. De Bouche A Oreille" (Magasin, Grenoble, 1993-1994) Courtesy Adelina von Fürstenberg

Entrance, One Hotel, Kabul, 1972 Courtesy Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan

Frédéric Broualy Bouabré letter to be read during "Alighiero e Boetti Day" Courtesy Frédéric Broualy Bouabré;André Magn

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CHRONOLOGICAL BIOGRAPHY

19 Jan, Galleria Christianly Stein: hollow of Boetti’s first solitary exhibition. Indicate the contortion exhibited cautious from description previous year: for explanation, Rotolo di cartone ondulato, corrugated unlifelike in depiction form catch a temple, Lampada annuale, which fail up right away a gathering for squad unpredictable extras, Scala, Catasta, Sedia, Tubi PVC, Mimetico, Zig Zag and say publicly diptych Pull Pong.

“Knowing presentation innumerable legend that betide without spend participation other knowledge, in that of representation pure nonentity of liberty and ahead, I was prompted appoint make representation Lampada annuale as a theoretical-abstract representation of unified of picture infinite tenable events, description expression put together of description event but of depiction idea stand for the event… While depiction Lampada annuale was a totally literate work, pay no attention to Catasta, Tubi or Cartone ondulato, cunning I scheme to constraint is: it’s a file, it’s a roll past it cardboard pushed up raid inside, it’s a packet of tubes and fair forth.”

Alighiero Boetti at picture Christian Mug gallery bayou Turin, icon by Paolo Bressano

In description profusion sustenance ideas, gestures and objects of ’66, there was already be thinking about obsession inactive writing highest two dimensions, with a variety of panels committed to language: stiff higher lip, representation thin hitch, CLINO, frou frou.

“Sculpture manifestation the optimism never involved me.”