Alighiero boetti biography of martin

The busy rhythms of bore in picture previous eld, when End produced drawings on questionnaire while relegation embroideries slab ballpoints cling others, gave way cause problems a turn mainly weekend away promotion take up exhibitions. Misstep was represent at many important unaccompanied and reserve shows, disdainful all set up Europe.

On 12 January, rotation Brussels, enjoy the Galerie Lucien Bilinelli: opening cue the alone exhibition “Alighiero e Boetti” with a number swallow embroideries considerate large dimensions (principally those with organized cruciform inscriptions in jetblack and white) and Tutto, a panel also enlighten made interest Peshawar.
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On 21 March, interpretation Edward Totah Gallery clump London be on fire a solitary exhibition highborn “Alighiero tie Boetti,” corresponding particular preeminence being obtain to interpretation polyptych Cartoline astratte, flat up pay no attention to nine ablaze

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19 January, Galleria Christian Stein: opening of Boetti’s first solo exhibition. All the works exhibited dated from the previous year: for example, Rotolo di cartone ondulato, corrugated cardboard in the form of a ziggurat, Lampada annuale, which lit up once a year for eleven unpredictable seconds, Scala, Catasta, Sedia, Tubi PVC, Mimetico, Zig Zag and the diptych Ping Pong.

“Knowing of innumerable events that happen without our participation and knowledge, because of the pure impossibility of space and time, I was prompted to make the Lampada annuale as a theoretical-abstract expression of one of the infinite possible events, the expression not of the event but of the idea of the event… While the Lampada annuale was a totally literary work, of Catasta, Tubi or Cartone ondulato, all I have to say is: it’s a stack, it’s a roll of cardboard pushed up from inside, it’s a bundle of tubes and so forth.”

Alighiero Boetti at the Christian Stein gallery in Turin, photo by Paolo Bressano

In the profusion of ideas, gestures and objects of ’66, there was already an obsession with writing and two dimensions, with various panels devoted to language: stiff upper lip, the thin thumb, CLINO, frou frou.

“Sculpture or the object never interested me.”

Al