Common Places: Printing, Embroidery, and the Art of Global Mapping

Künstler: Alighiero Boetti

Ausstellung: 18.02.2012 - 13.05.2012

Veranstalter: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA bei art-report

Stadt: Los Angeles
Homepage: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA


Alighiero Boetti, Mappa, Italy, 1979, cotton embroidery floss, Purchased with funds provided by The Broad Contemporary Art Museum Foundation in honor of the museum's 40th anniversary, Museum Associates © 2011.

 

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Common Places features three objects from LACMA’s permanent collection which transform printed works on paper into one-of-a-kind embroideries: a seventeenth-century valance, a cigarette silks quilt, and Alighiero Boetti ’s Mappa.

The resulting textiles articulate contemporary aspects of global phenomena and suggest that far from being a recent development, globalization has deep historical roots that extended into the home and everyday life.
 

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KünstlerInnen: Alighiero Boetti